[pvg]

I'm accused of a crime I _didn't_ commit, and my Google searches p-hack into a pattern.

It takes more than that to get a warrant and 'p-hack' is doing a lot of lifting as well. Far more intrusive evidence than your google searches can be gathered about you with a warrant.

Both 'it's bad that a giant digital dossier is constantly being collected about us by private parties you have little influence over' and 'it's harder to do crimes' can be true without it meaning 'the man is going to jail you for your bad taste in anime'.

[qingcharles]

I'm not sure you need a warrant? The "Third Party" doctrine in the USA still hasn't been totally over-ruled, and therefore any information you give to third parties is considered fair game via subpoena, which is vastly lower standard than a warrant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

(this is missing a key case, a 6th Cir. opinion, not SCOTUS sadly, but concerns emails being intercepted... I will update Wikipedia as soon as I can remember the cite)

[pvg]

These searches were obtained by serving Google with a search warrant, as it says in the charging documents from which these quotes were ragescreenshotted.