--- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:57:07 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rahat_private> Subject: ISPs Seek to Void Ruling on Police Searches http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10999-2002May13?language=printer washingtonpost.com ISPs Seek to Void Ruling on Police Searches Reuters Monday, May 13, 2002; 7:01 PM SAN FRANCISCO, May 13-Web giant Yahoo! Inc. and several Internet trade associations filed papers Monday seeking to overturn a court ruling which they said could fill the offices of Internet companies with police officers overseeing the execution of search warrants. In an amici curiae brief filed with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, the Internet group said a Minnesota court ruling requiring police officers to be physically present for search warrants would threaten client privacy, slow the searches and disrupt business. "A large Internet service provider can receive literally thousands of search warrants and other requests for information during the course of a year," the brief said. If the Minnesota ruling is allowed to stand, "it is entirely possible that at any given time a dozen or more law enforcement officers would be on the premises of a given service provider," it said. The Minnesota case involved a search warrant that was issued on Yahoo! in connection with a child pornography investigation. The warrant was faxed from Minnesota to Yahoo's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, where employees pulled up the requested information and sent it back to local prosecutors. [...] ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rahat_private> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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