Data Privacy,
Criminal,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sep. 22, 2021
Panel vacates child porn conviction over privacy rights
Google reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that defendant Luke Wilson had uploaded four images of apparent child pornography to his email account as attachments. But that report did not include the attachments, and no one at Google viewed them.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a child pornography conviction Tuesday because law enforcement officials never got a search warrant even though the information originally came from Google.
The case drew amicus briefs from several privacy rights groups which argued that the conviction threatened privacy rights. Alphabet Inc.-owned Google, along with Facebook Inc., denied the conviction violated the Fourth Amendment in anot...
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