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.
