[Nachum]

So, theoretically if you set your browser to clear it’s history every time you close it, you may be committing a felony over and over again.

[RIghtwardHo]

Yep. Insanity.

[sport]

It would not surprise me in the least. If you can be prosecuted for taking your own money out of the bank, you can be prosecuted for anything they so choose.

[null and void]

Dang. I just cleared all of mine in hopes of speeding up my interwebs experience.

[ClearCase_guy]

So, theoretically if you set your browser to clear it’s history every time you close it, you may be committing a felony over and over again.

Well, there is a fairly common statement that every man, woman and child in the USA commits at least 3 felonies a day.

We have a lot of laws, and basically living your life is a crime.

[discostu]

Only if you’re constantly doing stuff that would make your browser history evidence of a crime. Taking out the trash is legal, unless there’s bloody gloves from where you murdered somebody in there, then its destruction of evidence.

[blam]

I'm so computer illiterate that I could probably make a case that I didn't know what I was doing.

I clear mine every day.

If the Democrat Communists who run the US government knew how much time I spend on Free Republic....well....

[mlo]

"So, theoretically if you set your browser to clear it’s history every time you close it, you may be committing a felony over and over again."

Sure, if you've committed a crime, like lying to the FBI, and your history contains evidence of that crime and you are clearing it to hide that evidence.

[usconservative]

So, theoretically if you set your browser to clear it’s history every time you close it, you may be committing a felony over and over again.

Only if you're gullible enough to believe the title of the article and the writer's assertions.

You can only be held legally liable/accountable if you're under a court order to preserve and present data. The fact he was charged with the "crime" of deleting data that was not under a court order or subpoena will quickly get thrown out of court.

[Axenolith]

Not unless you talk to the authorities and give them a foot in the door (aside from the fact that their are probably contractual assumptions in Internet use that makes the legal access easier).

People always ensnare themselves in this stuff by talking to law enforcement, thinking they can “explain” themselves or that by being chatty they will elict sympathetic understanding. That never happens...

[TigersEye]

So, theoretically if you set your browser to clear it’s history every time you close it, you may be committing a felony over and over again.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,...

Bang!

[The_Reader_David]

Yup. Three felonies a day like the book title says.