Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer Privacy Ruling

[wildman424]

hey there guys, Has anyone read the article Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer Privacy Ruling at ars technica an ole friend just pointed it out to me and I thought I'd share with y'all. It could make for an interesting debate, but lets keep any discussion a civilized debate

Bowing to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court Monday gutted its own decision that had dramatically narrowed the government's search-and-seizure powers in the digital age.The 9-2 ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies Miranda-style guidelines the court promulgated last year that were designed to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights during court-authorized computer searches....The original ruling required the government to cull specific data described in the search warrant, rather than copy entire hard drives. When that's not possible, the feds were advised to use an independent third party under the court's supervision, whose job it would be to comb through the files for the specific information, and provide it, and nothing else, to the government. The ruling said judges should "deny the warrant altogether" if the government does not consent to such a plan in data-search cases.

Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer Privacy Ruling