How did the court in Warshak v. United States handle the issue of whether a person, whose business was under criminal investigation, had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of his personal e-mail account?

a. The court held that Warshak assumed the risk that the recipient of his e-mails would reveal the contents of e-mails.
b. The court found that screening e-mails for viruses or pornography does not invade an individual’s content-based privacy in the e-mails and has little bearing on his expectation of privacy in the content.
c. The court found that protecting shared communications through e-mails is as important to the Fourth Amendment principles today as protecting telephone conversations has been in the past.
d. All of the above reflect the court’s opinion in Warshak.


d. All of the above reflect the court’s opinion in Warshak.

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What will be an ideal response?

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