When a majority of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in June that the full court would tackle the limits on the retention and use of computer files seized by government agents, they really meant it.
On Wednesday, almost every active judge on the circuit had questions for Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra Glover about the government’s handling of massive amounts of seized computer data in light of people’s Fourth Amendment right to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
