CDR: Re: Carnivore Probe Mollifies Some

[Declan McCullagh]

I believe ECPA speaks to this explicitly, and where common law may (at
least arguably) be ambiguous about meatspace, U.S. statutory law
regarding electronic communications is not.

I may look this up and provide a cite if nobody else does in the next
day or so.

-Declan


On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:36:44PM -0500, Tim May wrote:
> More in tune with discussions I used to see (and participate in) on 
> the Cyberia-L list, there _might_ be some "innkeeper's 
> interpretation" (so to speak) about how a hotel owner can authorize 
> access to the rooms of patrons without specific warrants for the 
> patrons, by name. I believe, though I don't have any cites, that this 
> power is not so broad. And a warrant served against the San Francisco 
> Hyatt Regency in, say, October 1997, does not mean that cops can 
> wander through hotel rooms at will a year or three later.