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submitted 4 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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Aubrey Vanlandingham, a 17-year-old Texas student, was charged with animal cruelty after poisoning a classmate's show goat, Willie, with pesticide, allegedly because she "does not like cheaters."

Surveillance footage captured her force-feeding the goat with a syringe on October 23, leading to its death the following day.

Investigators found searches on her phone related to poisoning animals. The Texas Future Farmers of America condemned her actions, emphasizing ethical behavior and animal welfare.

Vanlandingham faces up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine, with a court date set for January 15.

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[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 130 points 4 days ago

"Investigators found searches on her phone for how to poison pets, how much bleach is needed to kill an animal, and how to clear search history," clearly didn't learn anything from that last search.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago

I gotta imagine that level of search would likely only yield results that will dupe family or technologically illiterate police. Any investigator with half a brain would be able to figure out the searches.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago

Searches are held at both ends.

You can clear your search history, you can't clear Google's.

[-] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

You can clear your search history, you can't clear Google's.

And that's why I use Bing. Checkmate!

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You can delete your google search history:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6096136

They implemented these controls worldwide when GDPR went into effect.

You can also set it to not save at all in the same menu, or set it to auto delete after a set period.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 12 points 4 days ago

So they say.

I’m sure they’ve already passed the data along to 5 eyes to save on their servers.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Did a random teenager in Texas know that?

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Based on them having her search history about committing a crime, I assume not.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago
[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Google is https only. All data sent to the site will be encrypted.

There isn't anyway for an ISP to capture search data from it.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I stand corrected.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

A serious suggestion would be duckduckgo and a vpn

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 10 points 4 days ago

DuckDuckGo works with tor as an onion service as well. Pretty great

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago
[-] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

You can use DDG anonymously with the Tor Browser.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago

If you use Tor Browser, you dont need to clear the other end

[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

That's fair. I know there are cases where cops will say they didn't find anything but only because they only looked at Internet Explorer.

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