Web Activity Used in Court to Portray State of Mind

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/web_activity_us.html

 

I'm not surprised and am pretty sure that will become more common. I mean, it's difficult to say this was totally wrong or totally right. You can't predict someone will do something or prove someone did something by looking at their Google searches. Otherwise I think a good portion of us would be in jail or have agents breaking our doors down. However, searching for something as specific as the heat required to off a kid in a car and then surviving in the pen would understandably raise some eyebrows. Especially after finding a body.