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>> police want to know who has searched for a particular name [douglas] used as part of that fraud

This is a super click-bait headline. Sounds like Police got the search history of everyone in the city. The reality, which is quickly explained in the article, is nothing like that. They have a list of people in the city who searched for a pretty specific term and it sounds like Google does the digging and gives them a list of names.

Whether that's a problem or not is still up for debate but that headline is ridiculous.




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