The fourth amendment and the law surrounding computer repair technicians
Introduction In this weeks entry, I will be re-exploring a very important topic! the question that a lot of people often bring up in different scenarios is whether or not law enforcement or the F.B.I needs consent in order to search a computer that you or somebody you know who has given the computer to a repair person in order to do maintenance on and the computer has "questionable" material on it. Is it considered an "illegal search and seizure" under the fourth amendment or can you be implicated? The short answer is yes, you can in fact can be implicated in "most" scenarios and under a varying degree of circumstances. Here is why the F.B.I can seize the computer without a warrant and go back and obtain one, in order to perform a computer forensics investigation on you. What the CCIPS Manual by the F.B.I states under constitutional law "As discussed above in Section B.4, computer searches by repairman prior to contact with law enforcement a...