{"id":58390,"date":"2024-07-18T07:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58390"},"modified":"2024-07-18T07:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:32:31","slug":"reason-internet-preservation-and-the-fourth-amendment-case-updates-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=58390","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Internet Preservation and the Fourth Amendment\u2014Case Updates, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reason, The Volokh Conspiracy: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2024\/07\/17\/internet-preservation-and-the-fourth-amendment-case-updates-part-i\/\">Internet Preservation and the Fourth Amendment\u2014Case Updates, Part I<\/a> by Orin S. Kerr (\u201cThe first of two rulings, and why I find it unpersuasive.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>It is a common practice among criminal investigators to &#8220;preserve&#8221; Internet accounts without cause. When an investigator learns that a suspect has a Facebook or email account, the investigator will direct the provider to run off and save a copy of the suspect&#8217;s entire account and to hold it for the government. If, weeks or months later, the investigator can eventually develop probable cause, the investigator can come back with a warrant and order the provider to hand over the previously-preserved account files. And if the investigator never develops probable cause, the provider will usually realize eventually that the government isn&#8217;t coming back, and it will usually then delete the extra government-ordered account records. This procedure is called &#8220;Internet preservation,\u201d and it&#8217;s done in the name of a provision of the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 2703(f).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason, The Volokh Conspiracy: Internet Preservation and the Fourth Amendment\u2014Case Updates, Part I by Orin S. Kerr (\u201cThe first of two rulings, and why I find it unpersuasive.\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches","category-social-media-warrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58391,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58390\/revisions\/58391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}