Minnov8 Gang 398 – Can I Go Thru Your Underwear Drawer?

This past week a Minnesota judge signed a search warrant for anyone who did a Google search for someone who defrauded an Edina bank. Besides being outrageously broad as a warrant—anybody who searched on this guy’s name for legitimate reasons would be under suspicion and could be brought in for questioning—is likely violating our Constitution’s 4th amendment against unreasonable searches. Even Forbes magazine picked up the story but few other outlets have…yet.

Of course, if this would be allowed we could go through Tim Elliott’s underwear drawer and who knows what we’d find?  

We talk about this judge’s warrant, and mostly technology of course, on this week’s podcast.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson

Music: Rock The Blues Away by Dennis Salli under a CC by 4.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Virtual-reality startup targeting real estate raises $1.3M
  
  
  
  • Realvision VR
  
  
  
  


• Video-streaming startup Seeka TV gives online indie series a home of their own
  
  
  
  • SeekaTV
  
  
  
  


• One of the top iPhone medical devices just got funding from Mayo Clinic (AliveCor & Kardia Band)


• Big Tech Companies Are on the Verge of Killing Right to Repair Legislation in Minnesota


• Chuck & Don’s Breaks Into E-Commerce Market With Acquisition Of Fetch
  
  
  
  • Chuck & Don’s and Fetch
  
  
  
  


• Two top Best Buy executives are leaving as roles are realigned


• The Minnesotan left-wing economic miracle continues, while neighboring Republican states slowly collapse
  
  
  
  • Tim mentioned Shadow Stats
  
  
  
  

Other Top Tech Stories

• Justice Department: Russia’s security services ‘protected, directed, facilitated, and paid’ hackers behind the massive breach of Yahoo


• Google
  
  
  
  • Google launches new effort to flag upsetting or offensive content in search 
  
  
  • Google Home is playing audio ads for Beauty and the Beast
  
  
  • Chrome 57 will throttle background tabs to save energy
  
  
  
  


• Amazon puts Alexa inside its main iPhone app

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Bonobos


• Tim: Vistabule Teardrop Trailers


• Steve: Epson FastFoto

Upcoming Events

• The Complete List of 280+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2017
  
  
  
  • The list as a Google spreadsheet
  
  
  
  


• Mobile Twin Cities, March 14th, BuzzFeed Offices.


• Midwest PHP 2017, March 17-18, Radisson Blu Mall of America


• Minnebar, March 25, Best Buy Headquarters


• Beta.mn, March 30th, Machine Shop, Minneapolis


• Enterprise Rising Conference, March 30th
  
  
  
  • Use the code Minnov82017 for 21% off your admission
  
  
  
  


• IoTFuse Conference 2017, April 21st, Mpls Conv Ctr


• Overnight Website Challenge, April 22-23, 2017, CoCo Minneapolis