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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
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