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As part of the investigation into a drug-trafficking case in December 2013, a United States magistrate judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a warrant under the Stored Communications Act of 1986 (SCA) requiring Microsoft to produce all emails and information associated with an account they hosted.
This personal jurisdiction is specific to the act, and a party cannot be sued for unrelated activity. In many instances, state long-arm statutes extend personal jurisdiction to the extent allowed by the U.S. Constitution. There are two kinds of personal jurisdiction, general and specific jurisdiction: [2]
In 2016 an amendment allowed judges to issue warrants allowing the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies to use remote access tools to access (hack) computers outside the jurisdiction in which the warrant was granted. [1] [2] The amendment to the subdivision (b) reads as follows:
Digital evidence is often ruled inadmissible by courts because it was obtained without authorization. [1] In most jurisdictions a warrant is required to seize and investigate digital devices. In a digital investigation this can present problems where, for example, evidence of other crimes are identified while investigating another.
IoT Forensics or IoT Forensic Science, a branch of digital forensics, that deals with the use of any digital forensics processes and procedures relating to the recovery of digital evidence which originates from one or more IoT devices for the purpose of preservation, identification, extraction or documentation of digital evidence with the intention of reconstructing IoT-related events. [1]
The main focus of digital forensics investigations is to recover objective evidence of a criminal activity (termed actus reus in legal parlance). However, the diverse range of data held in digital devices can help with other areas of inquiry. [4] Attribution Meta data and other logs can be used to attribute actions to an individual.
Bragg v. Linden Research, Inc., 487 F. Supp. 2d 593 (E.D. Pa. 2007), was a ruling at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.The case resulted in an important early ruling on the enforceability of an online End User License Agreement (EULA) under American contract law, though it did not ultimately gain influence as a precedent.
The terms defined are those in section 2510 of the title, "remote computing service," "court of competent jurisdiction," and "government entity." [17] Section 2712 (18 U.S.C. § 2712) of SCA discusses civil actions against the United States. Any party who has claims violation of the chapter or chapter 119 of the title may take action against U ...