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by hopler 2614 days ago
If I was mistreated by the police for a few days with no permanent harm, arrester on insufficient evidence, the police should pay me a few hundred or thousand dollar a day, maybe. Apple should pay nothing because because they did nothing wrong by sending evidence to the police.

The real problem is that the government considers arrest without conviction to be a civil duty, not a tort.