Data Privacy
Oct. 12, 2016
Search and seizure and the dark net
Courts grapple with the jurisdictional challenges of executing search warrants in cyberspace. By Tyler Newby and Hanley Chew
Tyler G. Newby
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A flurry of court opinions in recent months addressing cyberspace searches and seizures has brought into focus the jurisdictional challenges brought on by the expansion of the dark net, and the increasingly global distribution of internet services offered by U.S. companies. These opinions have addressed two thorny questions: whether a federal magistrate judge can authorize law enforcement to use a network investig...
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