Not everyone is so cautious. Baker and Sandoval often call police officers across the country for copies of their arrest warrants. Baker himself is considering using it in another situation. Until recently, consultants' bungalow industry helped police-made tower investments humans ensure they are now training them to apply for Google. Systematic data on the frequency of using reverse keyword warrants has not been collected, but the Andrew Crocker Electronic Border Foundation, director of surveillance litigation at Digital Rights Group, said there are hundreds of examples to date.

Meanwhile, it’s another case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court – using keyword search warrants to identify serial rapists. If the arrest warrant is retained, just like in Colorado, their use may accelerate nationwide. "Keywords are dangerous tools tailored to political repression," Crocker said. "For example, it's easy to envision immigration and customs law enforcement, requiring a list of everyone who searches for "immigration lawyers" in a given area.

By summer In 2024, all three teenagers received a plea deal: Siebert received a 10-year charge in juvenile detention; Seymour received 40 in adult prison, and Kevin Bui 60 also received 60. Bui was listed as arson case because he planned the harshest sentences. (He was also captured by fentanyl and several grams of methamphetamine in his socks while in custody.)

For the victim, this is not enough. Hassan Diol's husband, Amadou Beye, the father of seven-month-old Hawa, addressed Booy directly during the sentencing. "I will never forget or forgive what you did to me," he said. "You took me away from my wife, and this is the most beautiful thing I have. You took me away from the opportunity I will never see." A trembling man walked through his tall body. Beye had been waiting for a visa in Senegal when his family was killed. His daughter was born in the United States and he had never seen her before.

Bui remains expressionless in the victim's influence witness, except for the violent Adam's apple. Peach fluff darkens his jaw, now 20 years old. He wore a green jumpsuit, clear glasses and white shoes. Finally, he read from the crumpled yellow domination paper. "I am an ignorant knuckle, turned a blind eye to anger," he said. "I have no excuses, and no one wants to blame except myself." ”

But when I talked to Bui three months later, he sounded optimistic. “When you go to jail, there is a lifeline,” he told me. From Monday to Friday, he took classes on personal growth and emotional intelligence. Besides that, “I just exercise, I calmed down with some guys. We had dinner, watched TV, watched exercise,” he said. He tried to capture every game of the Denver Broncos and the Baltimore Ravens. Recently, he also entered Sex and the city.

Bui hasn't once complained about the lack of privacy in prison or the physics and digitalization of his exile from the outside world. Prisoners have almost no internet access, and it must be difficult for people of his generation to grow up online. Does he know there is no identity for iPhone, Snapchat and Instagram? No one of us, no opportunity for our online characters, our memes and tiktoks, and the full human knowledge our devices offer? As Seymour's lawyer said, aren't our deepest, truest selves living in our search and browsers?

Bui will only say he is in a good place now. Then he had to leave: he was cutting his hair. Or, he still has images to maintain.

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