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Dunatis Posted:

Go Blizzard!

Personally I think people whine way too much about privacy issues when the potential to help so many is there. If it takes the police knowing about my perverted porn collection and nerdy lifestyle to catch pedophiles, killers and other criminals, then so be it. I’ll suck it up and deal with the occasional inconvenience.

If they are keeping track of perfectly mundane activities of ordinary citizens then they are doing it wrong and wasting resources on top of it that could be used tracking down REAL criminals. If companies go out and give away info to third parties (including law enforcement) that they are not obliged to give legally (though warrants) they are exposing personal information away without your consent or knowledge. Exposing personal information also involves some risks and can bring some people a great sense of insecurity. And it is also up to Judges or magistrates to decide whether there is sufficient proof for further investigation (that might require a search warrant).

I think that countries like the UK (UK scores way worse than most western nation, including the USA, when it comes to privacy; mainly because of the abundance of camera’s and keyloggers on the public and workspace) show that keeping track of people and putting camera’s all over the place hardly helps preventing criminality and even though it has in some cases made a difference in identifying criminals, they are pretty worthless considering that police actually being physically present is way more efficient and considering camera’s are quite a nuisance and also give the possibility for abuse of power.

As for the internet: there is so much going on here that it is highly questionable whether it is useful to go and keep track of ordinary citizens as I’ve stated earlier and I srsly doubt the cops are busy going around in WoW patrolling or something. If though this was the case I believe the US law enforcement srsly has to get straight their priorities (which they actually gotta do anyways); Where I live the Federal Computer Crime Unit actually rather goes searching predator networks (arresting many pedo’s in one go) and shutting down pedo-websites rather than catching individual predators after actually luring them one-at-a-time; or occupying themselves with small time hackers and downloaders.

Sergeant Cid Posted:

I’m not sure a warrant would even be necessary. It’s like a hotel. You may be renting a room there, but the hotel owner can grant permission for the police to search any room, even without a warrant. I think I read somewhere about a case that was ruled like that, if I find it I’ll repost.

true, that’s why I simply say it is might rather uncalled for than a srs breach of privacy. And the police probably did this after receiving a complaint anyways. Anyways if this guys is actually a dealer, the idiot should have checked the EULA to see whether Blizzard co-operates with the cops.

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