{"id":8809,"date":"2013-05-30T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T11:59:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T11:59:52","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8809","title":{"rendered":"thewhir.com: The Fixation on Warrantless Data Seizures Makes Prevention of Crime Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>thewhir.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhir.com\/blog\/the-fixation-on-warrantless-data-seizures-makes-prevention-of-crime-harder\">The Fixation on Warrantless Data Seizures Makes Prevention of Crime Harder<\/a> by David Snead:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate is debating reform of the decades old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Those who oppose this reform, and other reforms designed to preserve our Fourth Amendment rights, often argue that law enforcement needs exceptions to the warrant requirement. These arguments tend to revolve around assertions that law enforcement needs access to data in certain circumstances because demonstrating that a warrant is required is too time consuming or difficult. Those making these arguments often go beyond existing warrant exceptions, to try making whole swaths of data exempt from a warrant. For example, administrative agencies seek access to virtually all email correspondence by simply issuing a subpoena. These exceptions, if agreed to, may solve a current problem. In the long term, they will make gaining access to data more difficult, if not impossible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}