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Privacy question

spurgemasturspurgemastur Member Posts: 5,655 ✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
friend emailed about a site spokeo.com that compiles all your info but is supposed to delete it upon request...which i couldn't make happen...but another site reputation defender was promoted...was this just a scam to get your email in trying to clean name off??? can you even clean your info off internet...thanks
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  • spurgemasturspurgemastur Member Posts: 5,655 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Our privacy rights are protected anywhere we have a 'reasonable expectation of privacy.'

    So....does that mean that when somebody obtains a search warrant on your home, you lose your reasonable expectation of privacy to the entire universe?

    I'm thinking about the hypothetical guy who went nutso in the grocery store and assaulted the cashier with a stick of celery before stealing a watermelon and going home. Then police showed up with a search warrant to look for the watermelon and the next day the papers published information about this villain's "cache of four pistols and two high-powered 10-22 rifles, along with about 1500 rounds of ammunition for the rifles."

    I think I know the answer to this question ("no") but doesn't the agency executing the warrant have a responsibility to keep details discovered in a search that are not relevant to the warrant private?

    I guess they have no such obligation because we've all seen news stories sort of like the one I made up above (maybe less ridiculous, but still).

    Should there be restrictions on what information authorities can release publicly, following the execution of a search warrant (or entry on the basis of probable cause)? I think so. Usually, the suspect has not yet had a preliminary hearing by the time the details of his house are published.

    The 'nothing to hide; nothing to fear' crowd may now feel free to post YouTube videos detailing every corner of your homes. The rest of you, sound off: I'd like your opinions.
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  • dan kellydan kelly Member Posts: 9,799
    edited November -1
    a good question.
    i would assume it would be the same as it is here. the authorities could post the additional information if the person wasnt allowed to have guns or ammo. other than that why should they? what possible relevance could it have? if they did anything like that to me i would talk to a lawyer! and ive had the police search my property many times looking for illegal weapons/unregistered weapons(and found nothing illegal at any time [;)]). i have never heard from anyone that the cops were talking about anything they saw on my property so they must have to keep quiet.
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  • ElMuertoMonkeyElMuertoMonkey Member Posts: 12,898
    edited November -1
    In my opinion, only details relevant to the case or other crimes should be released. However, given the media's fascination and hatred of firearms, there is no way on Earth they would keep the presence of firearms a secret. Yellow journalism is ingrained in their DNA and they will do whatever they can to create hysteria, fear, and suspicion of firearms, even if it means making crap up.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Having somone who broke the law having a "cache" of "weapons" and reporting this as such helps sway potential jurors. Your hypothetical huy assaulted a cashier with a stick of celery but yet had a "cache" of "weapons" at home this can show a possible premeditation of his crimes worsening. If the cops ever searched my home I would be accused of having an arsenal even though all of my guns are legaly aquired and owned, have purposes other than crime but to the media and some police they are scared of people owning more than one gun and one box of ammo. Reporting the way they do it creates fear and helps further the brainwashing that guns are only owned by evil people with bad intentions. How many times have you ever seen a report of a shooting on the news and the picture of a gun they show is never the actual gun or similar to the gun but instead an AK47 or a semi auto pistol? Dude holds up a 7-11 with a single shot shotgun and the media portrays it as an ak47, it's all about shock factor for the public.
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  • txlawdogtxlawdog Member Posts: 10,039 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Public information, its about the lawyers I guess. I would imagine that for years Law Enforcement kept everything from the public and they have fought so much to learn about it, so everything we do now becomes Public Information at some point. The attorney generals office can even deliver an opinion that we give certain information up even if we don't want to immediately do so.

    I agree, the media loves to sensationalize everything, especially things that they don't know anything about! But a lot of folks on here say that the media lies, so what does all that matter? I know its all a lie, even as I spy at the black helicopters through my foil laced windows.
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  • 47studebaker47studebaker Member Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I believe after a search warrant is served it becomes public knowledge, unless the judge seals it. Any items seized as a result of the search warrant, and those items discovered and seized during the search must be covered in an attachment to the search warrant and thus become again public knowledge, again unless the judge seals the warrant.
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