Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein of the Southern District of New York recently ruled email accounts are analogous to hard drives.
Email accounts are to hard drives as curtilage are to homes: searchable. At least according to U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein of the Southern District of New York, who recently ruled email accounts are analgous to hard drives, according to Mark Hamblett in “Warrant Permits Holding Entire Email Account, Judge Says,” published in LTN’s sister publication, the New York Law Journal.
“Officials armed with a warrant to search for evidence of a crime contained in individual emails can seize and hold the entire email account without running afoul of the Fourth Amendment,” explained Hamblett. He said the decision is “at odds” with at least two other courts.
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