2.2.The Search Warrant Analogy
If police have probable cause that writings, or computers containing potentially…
In many European countries the inhabitant of a searched premises must be first asked…
In the common law world there has been a huge paradigm shift when it comes to the…
The same approach applied in the late 19th Century case of U.S. v. Boyd, in which…
Indeed, early readings of the Fifth Amendment, which states that the a person may…
This approach to private or even business papers (and it must be remembered that…
Thus, U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence up until the 1960’s bore some similarity to…
Decisions of the USSC in the 1970’s put the nails in the coffin of the old protection…
Finally, a search warrant must also “particularly describe the places to be searched…
A search warrant of a business, whether legal or illegal, as with narcotics trafficking,…
But once a search happens on encrypted files and the authorities are unable to crack…
American judges have authorized forcible searches of computer systems, i.e., through…
When it comes to stored communications, the law that governs their access is the…
However, now that much content is encrypted, access to the text will be of no help…