2 Matching Annotations
- Jul 2024
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archive.ph archive.ph
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First, the complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.
If the federal government had access to every email you’ve ever written and every phone call you’ve ever made, it’s almost certain that they could find something you’ve done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations. You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.
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- Feb 2014
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cyber.law.harvard.edu cyber.law.harvard.edu
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J USTICE B REYER delivered the opinion of the Court.
Author of the opinion is Justice Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States
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