Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals found that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in email for Fourth Amendment search and seizure purposes. On review, Defendant convicted for transporting obscene images through online computer service. Failure to expressly include "computer" in federal obscenity law did not exclude electronic transmission of images from the reach of the statute.
Opinion at http://www.ipwatchdog.com/maxwell.html
Keywords: criminal actions, evidence, search and seizure, privacy
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