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United States v. King  

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  • In United States v. King, 509 F.3d 1338 (2007), the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the search of a personal laptop computer that was connected to a network at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Michael David King was a civilian contractor who was residing in the dormitory at the air base when an enlisted airman, searching the base network for music files, came across King's computer on the network and discovered pornographic materials, to which he alerted a military investigator. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; United States v. King (11th Cir. 2007)]

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  • 1969
  • 2007

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/United_States_v._King

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