The Colorado Supreme Court says your Google searches can be used to make arrests. Maybe not yours exactly, but those of a suspect in one high-profile criminal case can be…
(Google Search Ruling from State SupCo vxr :40)
The justices announced that ruling Monday, in a case involving one of the teens accused of setting a house fire that killed 5 family members. Denver Police arrested Gavin Seymour and two other teens tied to that arson, in August of 2020. The 5 people who died in that Green Valley Ranch fire were the Diol (joel) family from Senegal— a married mother and father, their 2-year-old, and the husband’s sister along with her infant daughter. Investigators went months without leads, until they turned to Google, and the company shared all the names of people who’d searched that home’s address, leading to Seymour and his co-defendant. Seymour’s lawyers appealed, claiming the search had been so broad, it was unconstitutional. Monday, the state Supreme Court found Denver acted in good faith, so the evidence found can be used at trial, and that murder case will move forward.