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Trying to workaround the 4th like that might manage to make the law facially constitutional, but I'd be surprised if it made the searches conducted as a result
by gpm 4y ago
Trying to workaround the 4th like that might manage to make the law facially constitutional, but I'd be surprised if it made the searches conducted as a result of it valid.
By my understanding you have to avoid a "warrantless search by a government agent" to avoid violating the constitution. The "warrantless search" part is really beyond dispute, so it's the "government agent" part that is in question. In general "government agent" is a term of art that means "acting at the behest of the government", but I don't know exactly where the boundary lies. I'd be fairly surprised if any law that allowed for accidentally storing CSAM after a failed search, but didn't allow for accidentally storing CSAM content without a search, didn't make the party doing the search a government agent. If you make the former illegal, cloud storage at all (scanning or not) is an impossible business to be in.