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If the police aren't going into your home to seize your hard drive, it might be a subpoena, rather than a warrant. The advantage here is that you can fight it.
by teachrdan 4y ago
If the police aren't going into your home to seize your hard drive, it might be a subpoena, rather than a warrant. The advantage here is that you can fight it. For the subject of this story, he likely could have fought to only turn over footage of the outside of his home -- not the footage from inside his home and store.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena_duces_tecum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena_duces_tecum
- bluGill 4y agoNote that as soon as the police inform you they are seeking data you have to ensure you preserve it. That may mean you have to buy additional storage while you fight it. If the police lose the case but can prove that the data expired before they lost they can then get you for deleting the data!
- dylan604 4y agoNot just the police. It can be for any law suit. I had to help someone that was in a legal battle with a construction company, and they had cameras showing the hours the work was being done including while the site was red tagged. I had to download the footage to external drives while they were away on vacation to ensure the copies were preserved before the system rolled over the older data. Once the lawyers knew the cameras existed, they issued the order and it became a nightmare ever since. I'm sure the expense of all of those drives was a rounding error in the overall cost of the case, but it's just another one of those things that stuck with me on the vindictiveness of an opposing counsel and the games they are allowed to play.