{"id":10778,"date":"2014-04-08T04:48:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T10:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/wordpress\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2014-04-13T12:40:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T18:40:34","slug":"politico-judge-again-rejects-feds-over-email-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10778","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Judge again rejects feds over email search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/under-the-radar\/2014\/04\/judge-again-rejects-feds-over-email-search-186441.html\">Judge again rejects feds over email search<\/a> by Josh Gerstein:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal magistrate who has refused or modified a slew of search warrants for email records in recent months out of concerns that they were overly broad has shot down a Justice Department proposal which appeared intended to allay his worries.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Judge John Facciola of U.S. District Court in Washington said in a ruling issued Monday that prosecutors&#8217; proposal to seal information deemed beyond the scope of the warrant was inadequate to resolve the constitutional violation caused by seizing the contents of an entire email account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government is unwilling\u2014for whatever reason\u2014to give up its policy of seizing large quantities of e-mails and other Fourth Amendment protected data even after this Court has repeatedly warned it against doing so,&#8221; Facciola wrote Monday in a ruling rejecting prosecutors&#8217; request to seize data from an Apple (.mac) e-mail account. &#8220;Mere convenience does not allow the government to violate the Fourth Amendment and seize data wholesale.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: Judge again rejects feds over email search by Josh Gerstein:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10779,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/10779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}