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[ NNSquad ] Woman accuses Google of causing police visit, but fails to mention explosives photo
Woman accuses Google of causing police visit, but fails to mention explosives photo http://j.mp/135K4vk (This message on Google+) I'm not even going to link to the media points (starting mostly with "The Guardian") who promulgated this nonsense this morning. A Long Island woman and her husband were visited by the cops asking if they had bomb-making equipment. She goes public asserting that recent Google searches relating to "pressure cookers" and "backpacks" must have been to blame. This was a ridiculous accusation along multiple vectors, but media all over the place picked up the silly "Evil Google" meme. Now it turns out that ... surprise ... she had recently posted a photo of a batch of M-66 explosives (big, red firecrackers) on her public Facebook page. Oops! Think maybe that had something to do with it, when some random person saw the photo and got over-concerned? Case closed. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad