So once you’re “in the system,” nothing is private. Nothing is sacred. Nothing. In this article, a man accused of murdering his wife and daughter has his google searches and other browsing habits made public. I’ll tell you why it bothers me — one, because it might have no relevance to your behavior, and two, because the average Joe will believe that what he types in that search bar is between him and his computer, and that’s all.
What if he was in the system for another reason, for example, someone hopping wireless networks used his to send a threatening message to a celebrity, and the FBI traced it back to his house. The forensic guys would still search the computer, and as long as he’s a suspect, that information is fair game. What if it happened to you? What do you think they’d find on YOUR home PC? I could tell you one thing they’d find on mine. Last week I remembered that someone at the office mentioned “tofu flavored to taste like human flesh.” You know, one of those geekish attempts at one-upping each other in level of grossness. So since I was near a PC at the time I remembered it, I searched it on Google. Will the forensics examiners make an assumption that I’m a cannibal now, just because I was reading about HuFu?
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