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Minnesota judge grants warrant for a whole town's search history

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Search warrants to access a suspect's search history aren't uncommon. Search warrants to access metadata from an entire cell tower are becoming more and more popular, too. What isn't common though, is a search warrant for the internet history of…
Search warrants to access a suspect’s search history aren’t uncommon. Search warrants to access metadata from an entire cell tower are becoming more and more popular, too. What isn’t common though, is a search warrant for the internet history of an entire town. While this sounds like something from the « what not to do » chapter in a law textbook, it is happening right now in the town of Edina, Minnesota.
A thief faxed in a fake passport to a credit union which allowed him to steal $28,500 out of a victim’s bank account.

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