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stickfigure • yesterday at 7:27 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

What if she mailed it to herself?

What if she put it in a locked box before shipping it to herself UPS, and she has the only key?

What if instead of UPS, she hired a moving company to move the locked box?

What if she wrote it electronically in diary.txt, but it was backed up to a cloud provider?

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I'm guessing there's some sort of "reasonable expectation of privacy" for certain activities. We're going to find out what Florida courts think about this new medium.


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mr_roboto • yesterday at 8:06 PM

We'll only find out what the courts think when this happens to someone with a lot of money. It takes a real legal fight to push it high enough to become precedence. She'll be pushed to plea out.