United States Legal Response to Evolution of Technology


Expansion of 4A protection & Technological Capabilities
Technology Crime dominant 4A metaphor 4A protection
1928 early telephone Prohibition Castle: property/trespass (Olmstead) none b/c no trespass
1968 mass market phones Gambling/Organized Crime People not places: reasonable expectation of privacy (Katz) Title III enacts guidance of Katz & Berger
  • PC
  • limit class of crimes
  • after the fact inventory
1984 store & forward [pre-emptive strike by technophiles] Generalized Communications protected: 3rd party business records vs. 1st class mail ECPA
  • email gets status of 1st class mail
  • technical detail
1994 transactional records [a new Web] 3rd Party Records Can be revealing CALEA
2003-> Semantic Web Terrorism/9-11 ?? ??