You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History

[gotbeer]

You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History

 

 

 

This is some absolutely scary shit that the police state can do.

[TobiasFunke]

NOOOOOOOOOOO

[Jason]

I guess they consider it destruction of evidence or something

[mp170.6]

Another reason to encrypt everything and start using Tor as your primary browser.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Seems pretty iffy to call a browser history evidence.

[acro2008]

Another reason to encrypt everything and start using Tor as your primary browser.

That's apparently how Hillary kept her email interactions private from the rest of the govt. As Sec. of State and the Clinton foundation using the private company "Base One Technologies" and their onion router. 

[Tank]

"The Supreme Court did not answer the pressing question of how broadly federal prosecutors are allowed to use Sarbanes-Oxley in the digital age. Can you be prosecuted for deleting a potentially incriminating tweet? For uninstalling Firefox? For clearing your browser history? How much of their digital data should citizens have to preserve in case law enforcement wants to take a look?"

 

 

this is all slippery slope type stuff. it's pretty darn frightening, too.