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They are looking for 1 criminal so they took data of a 1,000 people?

Is it cool for police to seize property of thousands of people just because someone somewhere might have commited a crime?

Because then your property can be seized at any time without reason, there is always some crime somewhere nearby.

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You are just making this up. Nowhere in the article is there any mention of them requesting data of 1,000 users to find one criminal.

What the article actually says:

>From January 2020 to June 2020, Google received nearly 40,000 requests for user information from law enforcement

There were 185,884 deportations by ICE last year, which is around 92,942 in the same time period. They are making 0.5 requests for information for every person they deport.

You are assuming that each request is for information on 1 person, when in fact it is quite common to ask for all persons having some identifiable characteristic, such as a geofenced location or using certain search terms.

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