I believe ECPA speaks to this explicitly, and where common law may (at least arguably) be ambiguous about meatspace, U.S. statutory law regarding electronic communications is not. I may look this up and provide a cite if nobody else does in the next day or so. -Declan On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:36:44PM -0500, Tim May wrote:
More in tune with discussions I used to see (and participate in) on the Cyberia-L list, there _might_ be some "innkeeper's interpretation" (so to speak) about how a hotel owner can authorize access to the rooms of patrons without specific warrants for the patrons, by name. I believe, though I don't have any cites, that this power is not so broad. And a warrant served against the San Francisco Hyatt Regency in, say, October 1997, does not mean that cops can wander through hotel rooms at will a year or three later.