New York Judge OKs Warrant To Search Entire Gmail Account

jfruh writes While several U.S. judges have refused overly broad warrants that sought to grant police access to a suspect's complete Gmail account, a federal judge in New York State OK'd such an order this week. Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein argued that a search of this type was no more invasive than the long-established practice of granting a warrant to copy and search the entire contents of a hard drive, and that alternatives, like asking Google employees to locate messages based on narrowly tailored criteria, risked excluding information that trained investigators could locate.

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Re:Warrants are supposed to be narrow

[Anonymous Coward]

Almost everyone can be found guilty of some illegal activity (however minor) if the search parameters are sufficiently broad.

Which is the whole point in total surveillance.

Everyone's already been guilty of something for some while, but now we also already have all the evidence.

The law may be applied coincidentally whenever the wrong people are annoyed. Government protestors really have no chance unless they're the particularly rare genius with a lot of power (as e.g. Snowden) who in one fell swoop unleashes enough on the world to put them immediately in the public eye.