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A teen charged with setting a fire that killed five members of a Senegalese immigrant family in Denver, Colorado, has become the first person to challenge police use of Google search histories to find someone who might have committed a crime, according to his lawyers.   The pushback against this surveillance tool, known as a reverse keyword search, is being closely watched by privacy and abortion rights advocates, who are concerned that it could soon be used to investigate women who search… Source link

DENVER (KDVR) — With a family of five dead in an unsolved house fire, night-vision images of the masked suspects haunted the metro for months — until Google led police to the accused killers. At age 16, Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour — along with another teen charged as a juvenile — were arrested on counts of first-degree murder and more in the August 2020 killings in Green Valley Ranch. It took months before a break in the case, with the community fearful it was a targeted… Source link

11:07 25/02/2021 MOSCOW, February 25 (RAPSI) – Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has issued a warning to Yandex company over creation of discriminatory conditions in the search engine, according to the watchdog’s statement. The company’s actions also contain the signs of abuse of market power, the FAS states. According to the FAS press office, Yandex provides marketing priority in the engine to its services that leads to discrimination. The regulator has ordered Yandex to… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Could your phone make you a suspect in a crime you didn’t commit? Police investigating vandalism that broke out amid the protests in Minneapolis over George Floyd’s death last year used a search warrant for Google users’ location data in an attempt to identify the so-called “Umbrella Man” who has been blamed for starting violence, TechCrunch reported. The “geofence” warrant targeted anyone who… Source link