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Thanks, I didn't realize I made that mistake. Maybe a better analogy would be a broker who is facilitating the transfer of some property, and the cops unreason

by daenz 13y ago

Thanks, I didn't realize I made that mistake. Maybe a better analogy would be a broker who is facilitating the transfer of some property, and the cops unreasonably searching/seizing the property while it's in the broker's possession?

dalke 13y ago
Here's the most apt analogy regarding "transfer of some property": The police aren't allowed to search a package without a warrant, but the USPS does photograph all U.S. mail (160 billion pieces), and sometimes provides that information to a police investigation. After all, what's on the outside (the metadata) is public. But in general, the owner of your apartment complex cannot give police permission to search your apartment, and the owner of a storage facility cannot give permission to search your items. (As an example of advices for the latter, read http://www.selfstoragelegal.com/articles/misc/police.asp http://www.selfstoragelegal.com/articles/misc/police.asp , which tries to walk the fuzzy line of being nice to the fuzz without bending any consumer protection laws that far.)