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These are good points, and supported by the court explicitly stating that they’re not making a judgement on all such warrants, but on the constitutionality of u
by ttyprintk 3y ago
These are good points, and supported by the court explicitly stating that they’re not making a judgement on all such warrants, but on the constitutionality of using evidence gathered this way.
I think this evidence cannot be used constitutionally, but practically I might be mistaking the application of this ruling to “good” warrants as well as “bad” ones. This might be a well-directed warrant which supports the public good with statistics satisfying a reasonable observer. But, can we tell that apart from a “bad” warrant in which we do not have access to refuting statistics? Honest question, should the search engine’s legal department be the only ones who can make the counter argument.
- taeric 3y agoFair. I can certainly see how this is close to things that are bad. And I'm all for keeping the watch up, as it were. To your specific question, I don't have an answer. I'm assuming some judgement was made at Google, as well? In that, if they felt it was an unconstitutional request, they can push back. The link someone gave to what libraries can/should do supports that view.