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Because the warrant was obtained for the information. Judges generally frown upon cuteness used to try and be 'technically correct' regarding their orders.
by s73ver_ 9y ago
Because the warrant was obtained for the information. Judges generally frown upon cuteness used to try and be 'technically correct' regarding their orders.
- Zak 9y agoI think there's a sort of... for lack of a better term, I'll call it information arbitrage, going on here. The person who first see the police is likely a receptionist or similar who does not have access to the information specified by the warrant. That person, quite reasonably makes the local management aware the police are present immediately. Management hasn't encountered the police or seen the warrant yet. They don't know the nature of the encounter, but they know they're supposed to tell corporate immediately. They do so, and make no attempt to prevent the execution of the warrant once they have received it. Corporate, located in another country doesn't know what's going on except that people claiming to be police showed up at a foreign office. They initiate a lockdown of the local computers until legal can sort it out. Now if management read a warrant demanding access to something on local computers, then made a call to corporate they knew would cause those computers to be remotely locked, they could be in trouble. I make no comment here about whether Uber is good, but Uber is definitely smart.