The examples you have given are of people going to a library, who may not have a contractual relationship with the library but use the computer, who would be subjected to this warrantless search of their computer communications for an indefinite period of time.
On the recordOctober 11, 2001
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Discussing privacy concerns related to warrantless searches of computer communications.
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