U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Mar. 11, 2013
9th Circuit approves warrantless search of U.S. citizen's laptop in major privacy case
In a watershed privacy case, an en banc panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday approved - with conditions - the warrantless search of a U.S. citizen's laptop at the Mexican border.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Technology has eroded privacy rights but has not entirely gutted them, an en banc panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday in a watershed decision that OK'd - with conditions - the warrantless search of a U.S. citizen's laptop at the Mexican border.
The laptop in question was carried by a California man entering Arizona from Mexico. The search ultimately revealed password-prot...
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