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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Woman accuses Google of causing police visit,
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Thu Aug 1 15:39:42 2013
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:23:29 -0700
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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--
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