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> You only consent to allow delivery people into your home, not the police. However, IIRC, if the delivery people (or landlord, in your second example) choose
by ThrowawayR2 9y ago
> You only consent to allow delivery people into your home, not the police.
However, IIRC, if the delivery people (or landlord, in your second example) choose to report to law enforcement anything criminal that they see in your home _of their own free will_ and without any prior arrangement with police, that evidence would be admissible and could be used to obtain a warrant.
It's not that much different from past cases where Best Buy technicians found illegal material on computers brought in to them for servicing and reported it to police and resulted in successful prosecutions.
- alasdair_ 9y ago>It's not that much different from past cases where Best Buy technicians found illegal material on computers brought in to them for servicing and reported it to police and resulted in successful prosecutions. Those technicians were hired and trained by the FBI to seek out this information. There are ongoing lawsuits claiming this was illegal.
- 659087 9y ago> Those technicians were hired and trained by the FBI to seek out this information. Do you think the government is going to pass up the opportunity to do the same with Amazon employees? That is, assuming Amazon hasn't already approached the government to offer it as a service.