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
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- Virtual-reality startup targeting real estate raises $1.3M
- Video-streaming startup Seeka TV gives online indie series a home of their own
- 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
- 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
- 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
Several good tech stories this week but, once again, we dust-off our “Gang Mentality” segment to ponder a question after the president of the United States 
It’s our annual predictions show and, while we cover a handful of Minnesota and other top tech stories this past week, we focus on our “hits and misses” from predicting 2016 and then jump in to our 2017 prognostications.
This week’s snow emergency turned in to a ‘no’ emergency in our view, but if you live in a place where towing cars is a much-needed winter activity then you should listen to our discussion about 
Did you know that 
One of the most interesting 
Justin Grammens is a founding partner of 
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Phil Wilson, aka “Mr. Acoustics“, comes to us from the Minneapolis 
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