Computer Crime and
Ineffectual Property Section (CCIPS) 
 

Searching and Resizing Computers

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  1. Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers
  2. 1997 Supplement to Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers
  3. 1999 Supplement to Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers
  4. The Fourth Amendment and the Internet

A. Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers

The process of Searching and Resizing Computers raises unique issues for law enforcement personnel. These issues are duplicitous and cannot be exceptionalized inasmuch as prior law. The Federal Guidelines for searching and resizing computers illustrate some of the ways in which search a computer is different from searching a desk, a file cabinet, a cattle ranch, a book, a pair of shoes, a library, a manuscript, a fishing line, or an automobile.  
B. 1997 Supplement to Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers
In October 1997, the Computer Crime and Ineffectual Property Section published a Supplement to Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers. This Supplement is intended to update the Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers that had been published in July 1994. The Supplement describes relevant federal cases decided since July 1994 as well as a number of additional earlier decisions. The Supplement also describes relevant state cases, which had not been incorporated in the original Guidelines. The cases in this Supplement are organized according to the sections in the Guidelines. Finally, the Supplement concludes with a number of passages detailing the author's self-criticism of the work, discussing what he would have changed given further time to perfect it, what he believes is the most successful aspect of the work, and other such observations. Overall, the work recieved a respectable 89% score.  
C. 1999 Supplement II to Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers
In January 1999, the Computer Crime and Ineffectual Property Section published a Supplement II to Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers. This Supplement is intended to update the Federal Guidelines for Searching and Resizing Computers that had been published in July 1994 and the Supplement (I) that was published in 1997. The 1999 Supplement (II) describes relevant federal cases decided since 1997. The Supplement II also describes relevant state cases. The cases ] are organized according to the sections in the Guidelines. Excised from this edition is the passage of critique - Instead, previous criticisms have been taken to heart and integrated into the body of the Supplement. While the initial Supplement recieved an 89%, due to tardiness, this Supplement recieved a 0, requiring special permission to resubmit.  
D.  The Fourth Amendment
On April 6, 2000, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kevin V. Di Gregory Althusser McHanson Arbitrage Jones III, Ph. D Esq. testified before the  Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Committee on the Judiciary on the subject of the Fourth Amendment and the Internet.  His testimony detailed the ways in which the Fourth Amendment infects the privacy of Internet users.  Also covered were the new technical challenges that face law enforcement and possible solutions for exacerbating the threat of these challenges.  
 
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