I know this is a tired argument by now but argument by analogy is generally terrible a raven isn't like a writing desk and your google history isn't like convenience store footage.
If we skip the obvious step of proving that unalike things are in fact unalike we can address things as they are and examine them truthfully.
In an ideal world your privacy ought not to be invaded by the authorities unless there is a reasonably good expectation that violating your privacy in particular will produce evidence relevant to the case at hand, that there is no narrower means to address the same cause, and that there is real harm in not doing so.
Obviously the way these concerns intersect is complex but we ought also to attend to the poorly thought out idea that we can justify invading everyone's privacy on the argument that surely SOMEONE is guilty because this line of reasoning would be so fantastically prone to abuse that we should have no privacy at all if we go this route.
In this case there isn't even reason to believe that any evidence should turn up even if we violate everyone's privacy, the logical alternative is real police work, and the potential consequences of letting a low level dirty bag slip away for a while are inconsequential.
The vast majority of us give away more personal data to search engines and ISPs than we ever gave to our local libraries it just seems that this data doesn't have the same protection not because such a rule wouldn't be socially useful but because the law hasn't adapted to modern times and search engines and isps don't have the tradition of social responsibility that libraries do.
In the context of all of the above it seems puzzling to me that you are advocating for a position that is so bad for nearly everyone. If we allow fishing expeditions in the name of expediency I very much doubt this will be end of the matter.
Please reconsider your positions or at least provide a better justification for same.
If we skip the obvious step of proving that unalike things are in fact unalike we can address things as they are and examine them truthfully.
In an ideal world your privacy ought not to be invaded by the authorities unless there is a reasonably good expectation that violating your privacy in particular will produce evidence relevant to the case at hand, that there is no narrower means to address the same cause, and that there is real harm in not doing so.
Obviously the way these concerns intersect is complex but we ought also to attend to the poorly thought out idea that we can justify invading everyone's privacy on the argument that surely SOMEONE is guilty because this line of reasoning would be so fantastically prone to abuse that we should have no privacy at all if we go this route.
In this case there isn't even reason to believe that any evidence should turn up even if we violate everyone's privacy, the logical alternative is real police work, and the potential consequences of letting a low level dirty bag slip away for a while are inconsequential.
The vast majority of us give away more personal data to search engines and ISPs than we ever gave to our local libraries it just seems that this data doesn't have the same protection not because such a rule wouldn't be socially useful but because the law hasn't adapted to modern times and search engines and isps don't have the tradition of social responsibility that libraries do.
In the context of all of the above it seems puzzling to me that you are advocating for a position that is so bad for nearly everyone. If we allow fishing expeditions in the name of expediency I very much doubt this will be end of the matter.
Please reconsider your positions or at least provide a better justification for same.