United States v. Brandon Michael Lifshitz

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• holding that, like letter writers, whose expectation of privacy ends upon delivery of the letter, individuals do not possess a legitimate expectation of privacy “in transmissions over the Internet or e-mail that have already arrived at the recipient”
• explaining that consent-to-search terms in probation agreements lessen expectations of privacy, but they do not give probation officers carte blanche to perform truly suspicionless searches
• finding that a probation requirement that the defendant install software that continuously monitored his computer usage may be an unconstitutional intrusion
• noting that the search must be minimally intrusive but maximally effectiveness so the searches “bear a close and substantial relationship to the government’s special needs”
• suggesting that individuals lack “an expectation of privacy in transmissions over the Internet or e- mail that have already arrived at the recipient”
• noting that the effectiveness of monitoring condition was not \pellucidly clear\

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