Court's ruling pumps up computer privacy
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' 9-2 decision on professional baseball players' drug test results offered Miranda-style guidelines to prosecutors and judges on how to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights while conducting computer searches. Ideally, when searching a computer's hard drive, the government should cull the specific data described in the search warrant, rather than copy the entire drive, the San Francisco-based appeals court ruled.
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