Google ‘Pressure Cookers’ and ‘Backpacks,’ Get a Visit from the Cops – Philip Bump – The Atlantic Wire

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/ Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How’d the government know what they were Googling?

Google ‘Pressure Cookers’ and ‘Backpacks,’ Get a Visit from the Cops – Philip Bump – The Atlantic Wire

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