Armed Men Arrive in Black SUVs to Search Family Home Because of Two Google Searches

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...earches/67864/

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Originally Posted by The Atlantic Wire Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?

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Originally Posted by The Atlantic Wire Quote: Originally Posted by Michele Catalano They mentioned that they do this about 100 times a week. And that 99 of those visits turn out to be nothing. I don’t know what happens on the other 1% of visits and I’m not sure I want to know what my neighbors are up to. One hundred times a week, groups of six armed men drive to houses in three black SUVs, conducting consented-if-casual searches of the property perhaps in part because of things people looked up online. But the NSA doesn't collect data on Americans, so this certainly won't happen to you.

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