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Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil
Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points to a Yahoo! story which begins "Google on Wednesday handed over data stored by suspected pedophiles on its Orkut social networking site to Brazilian authorities, ceding to pressure to lift its confidentiality duty to its users, officials said."
They use the word "suspects" but they really have probable cause and Google has being trying not to comply with DA's subpoenas for a long time now.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
I have one better. It was early spring and my wife and I are having our first night out after a new baby. We decide to go visit the local private nature center since it does not close at dark and is a good place to do some star gazing. It's also a fairly common lovers lane for the teenage set. We are there for about 15 minutes and a cop pulls up and start to give us the move along bit. Now were a quarter mile in the woods down a private road with no lights on. He instructs us that the park is closed after dark etc etc etc. He checks our ID. I mention that the park is not closed at dark and point him to the prominently displayed sign that allows for hiking camping horseback riding catch and release fishing and the "enjoyment of nature" and only forbids cutting down trees, campfires outside of the provided fire rings and leaving trash about. He still insists that we leave or be cited for trespassing so we go. I get over the town line and call his supervisor he wont even take the complaint over the phone and cites that the officer catches a lot of underage drinking and DWI and that he can go onto any private property if he see something suspicious. I let it drop as it's not worth my time.
A few months later the feds arrest the guy for getting underage girls to have sex with him and each other and videotaping it for sale on the internet in exchange for not arresting them on DWI underage drinking and minor drug offenses. He apparently had also been taking the teenage set with a low light camera while at the park.
Long story short cops are rarely white knights most are people doing a job that lets them feed there families with little skills outside what they were taught at the academy. Some are the worst of the bunch abusing the authority that they have sought to there own ends. Ever think that cops and congress critters should be like jury duty?
No sir I dont like it.