{"id":62837,"date":"2026-01-18T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62837"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:46:44","slug":"wi-snapchats-view-of-16-sec-cp-video-coming-through-it-was-private-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62837","title":{"rendered":"WI: SnapChat&#8217;s view of 16 sec. CSAM video coming through it was private search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SnapChat viewing a 16-second video that came through its system was a private search. It was not unreasonable for officers to view it too without a warrant when SnapChat sent it to the police. Then that led to a warrant for defendant\u2019s place. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=1064363\">State v. Gasper<\/a>, 2026 WI 3, 2026 Wisc. LEXIS 4 (Jan. 14, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer\u2019s stop of defendant led to observations that added up to reasonable suspicion that defendant, a convicted felon, might be armed. United States v. Mack, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 271002 (N.D. Ga. Dec. 23, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s purse left in the house when the police arrived was subject to search under the warrant. Even if the good faith exception applied, there would be no appreciable deterrence from suppression here. United States v. Bryant, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8274 (E.D. Mich. Jan. 15, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SnapChat viewing a 16-second video that came through its system was a private search. It was not unreasonable for officers to view it too without a warrant when SnapChat sent it to the police. Then that led to a warrant &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62837\">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":[43,35,59,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-search","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-scope-of-search","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62837","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=62837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62845,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62837\/revisions\/62845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}