April 20, 2007

Appeals Court, Allowing Warrantless Search, Clarifies Online-Privacy Rights

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

A network administrator at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was entitled to view the contents of a student's computer remotely without first getting a warrant because the student posed an immediate threat to the campus network, a federal appeals court has ruled.

But college legal experts said the court's decision, rather than limiting students' privacy, broke new legal ground in support of it. The ruling said the student had "legitimate, objectively reasonable privacy

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