{"id":64356,"date":"2026-06-30T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64356"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:43:39","slug":"ca11-yahoo-not-a-govt-actor-in-scanning-emails-for-csam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64356","title":{"rendered":"CA11: Yahoo not a govt actor in scanning emails for CSAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yahoo and NCMEC didn\u2019t act as government agents when they scanned defendant\u2019s email account for hash values of CSAM. They were not required to do so, but did so and warned customers they would. NCMEC passed on the information to the local police who got a search warrant. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/files\/202412038.pdf\">United States v. Williamson<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 18972 (11th Cir. June 30, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One appellant\u2019s search condition for probation was rejected as unjustified by the record. The other is waived for not having objected. People v. Brazeal, 2026 NY Slip Op 03910, 2026 N.Y. LEXIS 1127 (June 23, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-lethal force to disperse and not detain was not an unreasonable seizure. Wilansky v. Morton Cty., 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 18264 (8th Cir. June 24, 2026),*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion defendant wasn\u2019t driving in his lane, and that supported the stop. Then, drugs were in plain view in the vehicle. State v. Alberts, 2026 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 374 (June 25, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo and NCMEC didn\u2019t act as government agents when they scanned defendant\u2019s email account for hash values of CSAM. They were not required to do so, but did so and warned customers they would. NCMEC passed on the information to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,58,35,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches","category-probationparole-search","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64356","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=64356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64357,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64356\/revisions\/64357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}