Could Cops Scan Suspicious Web Search Terms for Pre-Crime Prevention?

I reject this notion that it is fine and acceptable with no question that companies, which we hire for a service, can grab our payed tax dollars to spy on us for supposed protection. You're a terrorist if you are a conspiracy nut but it's ok for the governent to draw conspiracies from you to put you away?

Search warrant for what? Do we give jail terms for being suspicious? No! Not yet anyway.

So any one curious, doing research, writing/reading murder mysteries... look out, the police might bust you for maybe, kinda thinking about killing someone perhaps sometime.

Unreal.

Suggesting such a notion is ridiculous. You need to think about the big picture Rebecca. Can't be going around arrest people just for being curious. Maybe they are a journalist trying to learn a little bit more about a particular subject, checking their facts which you did not (below). This idea of throwing away our personal freedoms in order to 'protect' people is sad. Read a history book, things tend to repeat themselves.

"The companies could provide the searcher’s IP address, which could conceivably be enough for a search warrant."
You can conceivable think that, however you are wrong. I believe it was in NY a Judge ruled that an IP address does not identify a person, due to the fact that it is insufficient evidence. With all of the Wi-Fi connections everywhere anyone with a minute understanding of networking can easily piggyback someones so-called secure wireless connection.

LOL @ "Pre Crime" thats the name of the group of people that prevent murders from happening in Minority Report.....maybe it will become our reality in the coming years.

"You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." -Morpheus

It isn't illegal to search these things and ya like some people say what if we were just researching or you suspect someone is trying to kill you and you wanna know what to expect or something random ya know. Maybe your just bored or trying to predict what will happen in the next episode of NCIS...lol I mean come on. If this happens I will type in everything bad I can think of once in a while as a sort of legal prank call to the police. I can understand if you see these searchs coming from someone who is probation for something related to violence or whatever.

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Do you know why I don't hear any helicopters whirring, any pitter-patter of mechanical spiders? Because the web server is down. BANG!

Here's hoping this is sensational writing and not honest opinions.

Suspicious search strings would not be enough evidence to arrest or even search anyone. More likely they would trigger a phone call from the police who would make you aware that you were being suspicious and they would remember you in case a crime were later committed. They would hope to make you change your mind about doing something unlawful by making you believe that you would likely be caught. Just like if a policeman saw you pick up a rock and threaten to throw it through a bank window, you won't be arrested if you don't throw the rock, but the policeman will make sure that you know he has his eye on you.

This sort of surveillance is still kind of intimidating, because it means they would be monitoring all search strings in order to find the suspicious ones, and there is no telling what they would do with all the rest of the data.

Also, hardened criminals would find ways around the system, doing searches from other peoples' phones or computers, spoofing addresses, etc.

Though it could be a deterrent to crime for regular people, I can easily see how the whole idea could be hijacked by the MPAA and RIAA to help them compile an enemies list of people who might be trying to learn about something that violates their copyrights.

USA the Land of the Free......

Freedom for the individual should always be the first thought process in all the new laws, but the reality fear, insecurity, economics dominate our laws.

With the ending of the War of Iraq and Afghanistan, more individual rights should be given back to the common people. Instead the restriction of liberty, individual rights and the assumption to be innocent diminishes as we allow our insecurity to dominate ourselves and our government.

It seems the enemy of Freedom is winning.

@space,
thank you kind sir. what "bush" are you taking about?

"You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." -Morpheus

Wow, and somehow we are okay allowing the United States to turn into Nazi Germany? Forget holding the corporate/banking/government system accountable to the people. They don't care. In fact they think they can tell us what to think.

We the people must retake control of the social narrative in this country. If we continue to stand by and react to it, we're just dancing to their song.

Wow. This seems almost dystopian. I can't imagine the government doing this. For one thing, I enjoy writing as a hobby, and I have searched things like that many times for research. If this happens, Anonymous shall hopefully take over the internet. ;)

For the Emperor!

Society wants to arrest people for searching on a topic when they don't arrest stalkers/abusers/wife beaters before the fact?

Many times, they are not even arrested AFTER the fact. Perhaps there are more pressing issues to address before arresting people for what they are Googling?

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Among other things, what would the police do with evidence someone looked for such questionable material on the internet? Would they issue a warrant for the arrest of the person doing the looking, just for looking? And why don't they talk about preventing material like that from being hosted on the internet if it is so dangerous? Because restricting internet content would interfere with hosting corporations making money! In the end, draconian solutions will answer a problem, but by creating worse situations. A solution is something that answers a situation and doesn't make things worse! The true and correct solution involvces people being more willing to keep an eye on others, keep some from becoming killers and others from becoming victims. Just like a combination of anti-Constitutional "security" and wholesale brutality worldside could thwart many "threats", but the surest way of not being threatened by another nation is to be their friend. The U.S. has been in a state of undeclared aggression, if not outright war, with the rest of the planet since the end of World War II.

Fundamentally, this should be called "Witch Hunting" and with that said should immediately not consider and abolished in premise.

Another thing this illustrates is our government has lost the idea of who they work for, who they defend and what they are defending.

By first premise, our government should be defending our Freedoms and from the creation of any law should come the enhancement of our Freedoms. This article smacks in the face to the American citizen that the mind set of our government has change and that the American people exist for the purpose of serve the government, so need to be monitored and controlled. The whole thought process is backwards and WRONG!

With the ending of the Iraq war end Afghanistan war, the laws that were created to fight terrorist radical behavior should be eliminated. But for our Government it was like a Pandora box they open and became drunk with the power it gave them.

The Government, military, and the police exist to serve and protect the people, not to control the people. The laws should control these institutions and restrict these institutions to NOT abuse the people and become too strong.
To add to this abuse is the USA Federal Bank which is privately own and has no elected officials, which is putting all of the USA people in ever escalating debt. It is unconstitutional and a type of slavery to dominate and control a person via debt and yet our Government has enhance this very thing since the great depression. We the USA people could eliminate this debt via one solution, but it would require all the USA people to be united in what I am about to suggest. First, I our constitution and rights that founded our country and in this we can declare our current government Leaders have been come corrupt, should be removed and start our government again, with new elected officials, declaring our current currency void and all its debts void as well. Yes what I propose is declaring a type of bankruptcy, but the only way we could do this would to move out our current elected officials and create a new currency.

What would be the one thing that would give value to the new currency to the rest of the world, would to identifying and standing up for what makes us special to the whole world, already. Our government exists for the people, to serve the people and always laws to protect the Freedom of the people.

Our government clearly knows the current USA dollar is already bankrupt and they best they can offer to the USA American people is to political do nothing and hope nothing negative will be said to them and they attempt to preserve their own political positions. These elected officials are dominated with selfish attitudes and cowards to stand up for what are right for ALL the USA people.

The value of the USA dollar is the value of the USA Government to protect and defend the Freedoms of the USA citizens and actually being a Free USA citizen.

Gold can be a standard of value for money. We left the gold standard years ago and gave the value of our money with the Government. That was our failure. The best and truest value of our dollar is with the Freedom we give to the USA citizen.

We the People and individual Right and our Freedoms is our value!

The value of the USA dollar is the value of the USA Government to protect and defend the Freedoms of the USA citizens and actually being a Free USA citizen.

Gold can be a standard of value for money. We left the gold standard years ago and gave the value of our money with the Government. That was our failure. The best and truest value of our dollar is with the Freedom we give to the USA citizen.

We the People and Individual Rights and our Freedoms is our value!

When we educated and give more Freedom to the People and allow support business to compete more, the whole value of the USA dollar grows.

Now, now.... everyone is getting all upset over nothing. The fact is that technology is taking us into a whole new world. And the internet is becoming more and more like the real world. The fact that big brother can "see" what you do on the internet is no different than big brother "seeing" what you do on the street. No one's talking about arresting anyone for being suspiscious. An arrest can only come AFTER a crime is committed. The fact is that when you search for anything on the internet you are entering a PUBLIC area... just like going outside of your house. And anyone who happens by can see what your doing including the cop car that just drove by. Will they arrest you if it looks like your washing something dark red from a rag at your garden hose... no... but they may stop to ask "whatcha got there, boy?". Well, thats all this is proposing. If someone is searching something suspiscious on the web(in public)... the law has the right to wonder what you're up to. After all... people keep forgetting that they may be the victim someday... and then you will have wished that the police would have had more tools to prevent what happened to YOU.

Today's magic is tomorrow's technology.

1. Heath care continues to rise.
2. Social security and Medicare is declared gone in the future.
3. Government continues to get bigger and more complicated.
4. Tax law for the people grows in complexity.
5. Individual Freedoms decrease; Military, Police power grows in its ability to limit and control our lives.
6. Higher education becomes more expensive.
7. National debt increase, with no solution and our Politian’s hide to maintain their own political positions.
6. World population continues to grow, unstoppable in nature.
7. World pollution continues to grow, even if you believe this is a cause of global warming or not.
8. The world is warming up, fresh clean water harder to find. Most of the world populations live near water and will suffer with rising water lines and not having clean fresh water to drink.
9. The distance of wealth of the upper 1% widens from the general public.
10. I see all this as being unstoppable and maybe a solution might be found in humanity establishing itself in outer space. We humans in our greed are destroying and consuming up our own planet. It will be us humans facing our environmental problems and establishing ourselves as a community in outer space unselfishly to concur these problems. Though, the 1% might move their castles to outer space and just continue to exploit those humans on Earth,too.

God say us.

God save us.

The NWO is really trying to push through their pre-crime agenda. Like their pre-emptive strikes on nations. “You are guilty because we think you are guilty”. This is wrong, we are innocent UNTIL PROVEN guilty. What is it the sheep don’t understand about that?

@GGenua this may be a “whole new world” as you said, but the constitution is quite clear on its stance to privacy and due process. Regardless of the state of our technology, there are laws in place to protect us from the blood sucking, corporation run government.

Also will google be doing this service for free or are they going to be paid with our tax dollars to illegally inform on us?? That’s the big question in a nut shell. Many of you do not know that google was funded by the C.I.A from the onset to collect data on the population.

@Robot what you said about the Fed…sounds like you are one of those financial terrorists…under patriot act II, depending on the city you live in, you could be picked up, help w/o bail or trial, and even executed secretly.

@Contoria….the U.S constitution is a thorn in the NWO’s side. They will write all manor of legislation to circumvent it. All kind of propaganda to debunk it. In the end its really the only thing standing in their way to turn us into slaves.

The Constitution says clearly we have the right to , Freedom of speech, religion, to gather and protest, privacy, right to bear arms. We received these right from GOD the second we were created. All these laws, and science articles to prove God isn’t real. Because if your rights came from a governmental body, then a governmental body can remove them.

WAKE UP SHEEP

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@Robot, as we all should my freind.

The whole concept depends on assuming the worst of someone who has committed no crime. If someone searches for how to suffocate someone, it doesn't mean that they intend to do anything except use the internet for its original purpose, getting information.

I suppose someday if one searches for how to use a frying pan, someone will be arrested because... they are often the weapon of choice for disgruntled house keepers.

Here we come Nineteen Eighty-Four! http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2012/05/26/department-of-homeland-security-forced-to-release-list-of-keywords-used-to-monitor-social-networking-sites/2/ (Don't say anything about any of these terms on Facebook you are possibly being logged!)