As technology speeds ahead, lawmakers have barely begun to wrestle with the attendant privacy issues, such as whether protections against search and seizure apply in cyberspace. In New Jersey, the issue came to the fore when the Appellate Division considered whether police could scroll through a suspect's pager to see who had called him. The court ruled that although the phone numbers in the pager were protected by the Fourth Amendment, the search was justified because the numbers might be erased.
November 29, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Nowadays, just about anyone with a modem and time to spare can discover personal details of other people’s lives. Information ranging from medical histories, to bank statements, to books purchased is stored online and is accessible to hackers.
But while the technology speeds ahead, lawmakers have barely begun to wrestle with the attendant privacy issues, such as whether protections against search and seizure apply in cyberspace.
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