Comments on: Is This Grounds To Search Your Computer and Postal Mail http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/03/20/is-this-grounds-to-search-your-computer-and-postal-mail/ Good Analysis, Bad Grammar Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:11:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: GNZ http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/03/20/is-this-grounds-to-search-your-computer-and-postal-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-941 GNZ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:34:29 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/03/20/is-this-grounds-to-search-your-computer-and-postal-mail/#comment-941 <p>A person does not have to be proven to be guilty of a crime before the police can apply for a warrant in order to gather evidence to prove they are guilty. If that was the case then the police wouldn't be doing much convicting.</p> <p>The question I think is how often is clicking on such a link associated with being guilty of the crime. We know we will invade the privacy of a few innocent people (or more relevantly, people who we cannot prove are guilty), and we know we will catch some guilty people, we just want to structure our laws to minimize the former and maximize the latter.</p> A person does not have to be proven to be guilty of a crime before the police can apply for a warrant in order to gather evidence to prove they are guilty. If that was the case then the police wouldn’t be doing much convicting.

The question I think is how often is clicking on such a link associated with being guilty of the crime. We know we will invade the privacy of a few innocent people (or more relevantly, people who we cannot prove are guilty), and we know we will catch some guilty people, we just want to structure our laws to minimize the former and maximize the latter.

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