Legal Opinion
United States v. Post
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided January 30, 2014No. Criminal Action No. 3:13-CR-20PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GREGG COSTA, District Judge.
Child pornography was uploaded to a website. Federal agents obtained the image from the website and used its metada-ta to identify the GPS coordinates where the photo had been taken with an iPhone. That metadata led the agents to the home of Defendant Donald Post, who then admitted to taking that photo, as well as others, of a four-year-old girl who had recently stayed at his home. Post now contends that even though he had uploaded the image to a website, he retained a privacy interest in that image’s metadata that law enforcement invaded in…
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