Police are increasingly using “key search” warrants to identify suspects based on Google queries — raising a growing legal debate over whether sweeping up users’ search history without a named suspect ...

Criminal investigators hoping to develop suspects in difficult cases have been asking Google to reveal who searched for specific information online, seeking “reverse keyword” warrants that critics ...

Pressuring news organizations to reveal confidential sources chips away at press freedom, writes Syracuse University free speech expert. It also can devastate lives.