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As the queries were attributed by AOL to particular user numerically identified accounts, an individual could be identified and matched to their account and search history. [1] The New York Times was able to locate an individual from the released and anonymized search records by cross referencing them with phonebook listings. [2]
A search warrant is a court order that a magistrate or judge issues to authorize law enforcement officers to conduct a search of a person, location, or vehicle for evidence of a crime and to confiscate any evidence they find. In most countries, a search warrant cannot be issued in aid of civil process.
2018 United States Supreme Court case Microsoft Corp. v. United States Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 27, 2018 Decided April 17, 2018 Full case name United States v. Microsoft Corp. Docket no. 17-2 Citations 584 U.S. ___ (more) 138 S.Ct. 1186 Case history Prior Microsoft Corp. v. United States, S.D.N.Y. reversed, warrant quashed, and civil contempt ruling vacated (2nd Cir ...
The redacted search warrant affidavit, along with a redacted copy of the legal brief that justified redactions to the affidavit, [n] were unsealed and made public on August 26. [194] [195] The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN released annotated versions of the search warrant affidavit as well. [196] [197] [4]
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the matter of whether wiretapping of private telephone conversations, conducted by federal agents without a search warrant with recordings subsequently used as evidence, constituted a violation of the target’s rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
The lead investigator had executed the search warrant after receiving a sign-off from Chemung County Judge Richard W. Rich Jr., according to court documents reviewed by the New York Post.
A news media report in 2007 stated a government audit found the FBI had violated the rules more than 1,000 times in an audit of 10% of its national investigations between 2002 and 2007. [13] Twenty such incidents involved requests by agents for information not permitted under the law.
On December 16, 2005, the New York Times printed a story asserting that following 9/11, "President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying", as part ...