I wouldn’t post this if I hadn’t seen similar before (we love to watch FBI Files). In this case a University of Central England, Birmingham student killed his wife after using Google to figure out how.

killed his wife with a baseball bat because she became too independent for him. The incident is now dubbed the “Google Murder” because the day before the killing, Anurag logged onto a university computer and carried out a Google search which – in the words of prosecuting lawyer Gareth Walters – involved “tips with killing with a baseball bat and how to murder someone and not get caught.”

I hate to help a criminal, but please people — don’t search for how to murder someone on a computer. You are not searching in privacy you think you are.

I don’t know how Anurag’s searches were uncovered – maybe the university logs all traffic and handed over the data to the prosecutors

See?

Handing data over to anyone that asks seems pretty common these days, too common IMO. If you think so too try our tips on search privacy, clearing your search history, and even how to keep desktop searches safe.

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