He's a bloodhound for the digital age. Much the way other dogs can pick up the scent of a fugitive or a cache of cocaine, Bear the labrador can smell the components of electronic media, even a micro-card as small as a fingernail that a suspect could easily hide.
From the article:
The 2-year-old rescue pooch nosed out a thumb drive that humans had failed to find during a search of Fogle's Indiana house in July, several weeks before he agreed to plead guilty to having X-rated images of minors and paying to have sex with teenage girls.
(Score: 4, Informative) by hemocyanin on Thursday August 27 2015, @12:17AM
Exactly, and secondly, the way privacy is eroded is to find a disgusting defendant with whom almost everyone cannot identify. The primary magic spell over rationality employed by authoritarians, is to find someone really horrid, and say: "do you support what he did? You must if you care about privacy."
In this case, I doubt there is anything outside the pale -- surely the search occurred in the context of a warrant. But something to be aware of is how easily the police-state can win ever more power just by picking gross defendants, and using them as a test cases for the expansion of abusive power.