Legal Research

Is Your Offsite Data Safe

By jlutz99

Does the Fourth Amendment protect data stored on remote servers? Information Week Government, reports that it might not be protected.  Here's an excerpt: 

Americans take for granted that, except in the plots on popular television shows, the government typically cannot come into their homes without showing them a valid search warrant," Smith said. "But the courts have cast doubt on whether the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which provides this protection, applies to information that is transferred to a third party for storage or use.

Read the article here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).