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California Law Says Electronic Search Data Must Be Posted Online. So Where Is It?
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When it was passed in 2015, the California Electronic Communications Act (CalECPA) was heralded as a major achievement for digital privacy, because it required law enforcement to obtain a warrant in most cases before searching a suspect's data, be it on a personal device or on the cloud. But the law also contained a landmark transparency measure: the legislature ordered the California Department of Justice (CADOJ) to publish a regularly updated dataset of these search warrants on its website.
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