It is dishonest to represent this as an instance of &quot;the search engine police&quot; turning up as a result of NSA snooping. From the NY Daily News article you linked:<p>&gt;“Somewhere out there, someone was watching,” Michele Catalano wrote on the “Medium” blog[...]<p>&gt; The Suffolk County Police Department said it sent detectives to her East Meadow home Wednesday after a Bay Shore-based computer company reported suspicious computer searches by a “recently released” employee.<p>&gt; “We found out ... that the searches involved also things my husband looked up at his old job,” Catalano wrote Thursday night in a separate blog post on “Open Areas,” her personal site.<p>In sum: Mr. Catalano and his former employer got into a flap presumably related in some way to the employer becoming &quot;former&quot;; said employer, which sounds like a pretty lousy place to work if this is the kind of shit they pull, tried to SWAT the Catalanos in the best 4chan style; Mrs. Catalano, seeing an opportunity to grab some headlines and maybe a touch of lasting notoriety for her otherwise entirely forgettable online presence, made this out to be something almost entirely other than what it was; the post-Snowden online media grabbed hold of it for five minutes, then realized how they&#x27;d been played and turned on Mrs. Catalano [1] for thinking she could put one over on them.<p>I don&#x27;t see how the case against ubiquitous Internet surveillance can be effectively bolstered with dishonest representations of rather trivial events.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;pressure-cooker&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;08&#x2F;pressure-cooker&#x2F;</a>