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Criminal Subpoenas for Online Data

Never before has so much personal data been available anywhere but also completely outside the immediate control of the person who created it. Companies like Google and Facebook are the entities responding to government search warrants and subpoenas for individuals' personal information. Federal courts continue to struggle ' and sharply disagree ' over the scope of Fourth Amendment protections for this data.

23 minute read October 02, 2014 at 12:00 AM
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Ben Barnett and Rebecca Kahan Waldman
Criminal Subpoenas for Online Data

The amount of electronically stored information (ESI) in the digital universe is staggering and increasing exponentially. Much of this data is personal. According to IBM, every day, people globally send 294 billion e-mails, publish 230 million Tweets, and upload 100 terabytes of data to Facebook.

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