Police are NOT requesting "whole city's Google Searches" - they are requesting the Whole WORLD's Google searches (if you will) for a specific search string (actually a variation of strings).
Realistically complying will get them a bunch of IP addresses. Lets say they get 100 IP addresses; then what?
Track down and investigate every one of them? For what? How do you go from IP address to potential suspect in Bank Fraud?
Apparently now rather than having a suspect and then going to Google for that specific suspect's records is no longer the in thing. These lazy coppers want Google's help to even develop a suspect...very very close to a fishing expedition.
Police are NOT requesting "whole city's Google Searches" - they are requesting the Whole WORLD's Google searches (if you will) for a specific search string (actually a variation of strings).
Realistically complying will get them a bunch of IP addresses. Lets say they get 100 IP addresses; then what? Track down and investigate every one of them? For what? How do you go from IP address to potential suspect in Bank Fraud?
Apparently now rather than having a suspect and then going to Google for that specific suspect's records is no longer the in thing. These lazy coppers want Google's help to even develop a suspect...very very close to a fishing expedition.