Child pornography conviction overturned because the government violated the Posse Comitatus Act - The Washington Post

Child pornography conviction overturned because the government violated the Posse Comitatus Act - The Washington Post: "The extraordinary nature of the surveillance here demonstrates a need to deter future violations. So far as we can tell from the record, it has become a routine practice for the Navy to conduct surveillance of all the civilian computers in an entire state to see whether any child pornography can be found on them, and then to turn over the information to civilian law enforcement when no military connection exists."



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