A teenager accused of killing five members of aSenegalese immigrant familyin Denver, Colorado, uses Google search history by police. Became the first person to challenge. According to his lawyer, find someone who may have committed the crime.
The backlash against this monitoring tool, known as reverse keyword search, is carefully watched by those who advocate for privacy and the right to abortion. Used to investigatewomen whosearch for information about getting an abortion in a state where the procedure is currently illegal.
In a document filed with the Denver District Court on Thursday, a 17-year-old lawyer told a judge who ordered Google to check a vast database of Internet searches for typed users, police. Claims to have violated the Constitution. At the address of the house before it burned on August 5, 2020. Three adults and two children died in a fire.
According to police records, by searching Google's records, investigators pointed out a teenager and two friends, who were eventually charged with a criminal record. All were boys at the time of their arrest. Two of them, including 17 years old, have been tried as adults; they both pleaded not guilty. The juvenile court defendant has not yet entered a plea.
A 17-year-old lawyer discards the search and all evidence obtained from it as it represents a blind expedition with billions of Google user queries based on the murderer's premonition. I have entered an address in the search bar that states that I need it. It violated Article 4 of the Constitutional Amendment, which lawyers claimed to protect against unjustified searches.
"People have a privacy interest in the history of Internet searches. This is actually an archive of your personal expressions," the Fourth Amendment of the National Criminal Attorneys Association. Michael Price, the center's chief litigation officer, said. One of the 17-year-old lawyers. "Search engines like Google are the gateway to vast amounts of information online and how to find what most people are looking for. All of those questions are something deep and private about people, they Reveals that they may not share with friends, family, or priests. "
Keyword search shows that policea series of Texas bombings,sexually. It has become more and more common in recent years as it has come to be used to search for suspects of various crimes, including abuse. Wisconsinandfraud in MinnesotaIt differs from traditional investigative warrants in that police search without knowing the suspect's name. Instead, they are seeking information that could lead to the suspect.
Google didn't publish data about the number of keyword search requests it received and didn't respond to requests that provided that information. Google also didn't respond to requests for comment.
The Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade case, privacy advocates and women's rights groups are illegal in states where keyword searches have outlawed them. We are concerned that it may extend to abortion investigations.
"Police officers are trying to investigate people who appear to be in violation of these laws. One way to find them is in a particular location. To ask Google to pass information about everyone who searched for the parent-child relationship planned in, "Jennifer, director of surveillance proceedings at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil rights organization that plans to submit. Lynch says. A brief description in support of the 17-year-old challenge to guarantee keyword search.
"If Google permits or requires the delivery of information in this Colorado lawsuit, a state court that has outlawed abortion also requires Google to pass information on that type of keyword search. I can't stop doing it. "
Abortion advocates ask Google to provide information about devices that were near the scene of the crime to find the suspect. I am also concerned about the Geofence Decree. The tool was , which was found unconstitutional by a Virginia judge last year, but the ruling does not bind police in other parts of the country.
Denver police, with the help of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, keywords when they had not yet identified people caught in security videos with masks a few weeks after the fire. I turned my attention to the search. Before it catches fire.
With a keyword search warrant issued in November 2020, Google searched for someone who inquired about the address of a house that burned 15 days before the fire. Google provided information about 61 queries along with an IP address ( a unique number for each computer on the Internet), according to court filings. Investigators focused on some of these queries and asked Google to provide detailed user information. One of them was associated with the age of 17.
From there, investigators investigated other teenage online activities such as Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, and text messages.
Investigations have revealed that a fire broke out in a false revenge attempt against a person who stole one of the co-defendants' mobile phones.Detective Denver testified last yearAfter the fire, co-defendants realized that the people killed were not the ones he thought he had stolen the phone, the detective said.
Without the keyword search warrant, the investigator would not have suspected him or his friend at the age of 17, his lawyer wrote in a motion filed Thursday.
"The starting point was to search for billions of Google users, but none of them had evidence to search," the lawyer wrote.
The lawyer called the privacy breach of everyone who searched Google for 15 days, not just the 17-year-old defendant.
Denver police declined to comment. So was the Denver District Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting the case.
According to Price, sifting Google's vast search scope is similar to giving the government access to users' thoughts, concerns, questions, and fears. ..
"All of these questions reveal that you may not be able to share something deeply private about a person, friends, family, or priests," Price said. "" Denver Psychiatrist ". "Abortion provider near me". "Does God Exist?" Every day, people ask Google those questions for information.