> He's not a US person, but instead a well-known citizen of Iceland, living abroad, and is thus not protected by the Fourth Amendment Again, that actually isn'

> He's not a US person, but instead a well-known citizen of Iceland, living abroad, and is thus not protected by the Fourth Amendment Again, that actually isn't particularly obvious in this kind of situation. The US property of non-resident aliens enjoys constitutional protection against (for example) expropriation. But there's no equivalent protection for their US cloud data? Oh Well. On the other hand, as far as I can tell (IANAL) the fellow just got served a warrant, or at least a pretty ordinary court order of the kind that isn't related to foreign-intelligence loopholes or restricted to non-USPERSes. That's roughly the kind of thing that will happen to you in any jurisdiction if prosecutors have good evidence that you have information material to a huge criminal investigation. Maybe the secrecy or the breadth of the order was dubious. (I think it's also very likely that his GMail was scoped out with a FAA702 before the government decided to re-request the information using a means that would allow it to be introduced by the prosecution in a US court case.) But fundamentally it seems </sunglasses> he just got served ... I'll get my coat.