Lessons for Laptops for the 18th Century

  • Authors:
  • Roland L. Trope;E. Michael Power

  • Affiliations:
  • Trope and Schramm LLP;Gowling LaFleur Henderson LLP

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

As governments attempt to prevent, investigate, or prosecute crimes by persons who use the Internetto plan and carry out terrorist acts, the protection of private, personal information stored on computershas recently become the subject of controversy.Inevitably, the home computer will become a target forsurveillance, search, and seizure by government agents. As a result, courts will be asked to determinewhether such agents have complied with applicable laws that condition such intrusions on meeting standardsset by constitutions or laws that did not anticipate the home computer as a focal point for suchcontroversies.