How a Google-Typed Address Allowed the Denver Police to Identify Three Suspects in a Criminal Case, Which Revives the Debate on the Drifts of Digital Surveillance

In August 2020, a criminal arson of a rare violence ravaged a house in Denver, Colorado, killing five members of a Senegalese family. For months, the case was trampling on. But it was a controversial digital investigation technique that finally allowed the detectives to trace up to the three teenagers involved: a reverse search warrant on the keywords typed in Google, also called reverse keyword search warrant.Because of the absence of identifie…