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Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Dist. III

12/29/2022

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Why care about Wisconsin v. Bowers?

The Appellant, a police officer, created a DropBox account using his police department email address--duh.

He then used the DropBox to transfer documents or give access to specific folders to others--sharing.

He then put police reports of several murder investigations into the folders for others to have access to.

The police were not happy that the investigations fell into the wrong hands and soon learned about the DropBox account.

Because it was an "official account" the IT folks simply accessed the DropBox account. When the went to log in they arlready had the email address so all they had to do was click "forgot password" and whamo--they get to reset the password. Apparently Bowers wasn't using 2FA--duh.

Having gotten access, the IT folks and the prosecutor soon found what they were looking for. But, not so fast, the search was all done without a warrant. That's why Bowers is an interesting case to read about a reasonable expectation of privacy in a DropBox account where there is sharing.

The critical word saving Bower on appeal is "password."


Cheers.

And may you be having fair winds and following seas for 2023.

1 Comment
Jaime Alberti
1/29/2023 16:32:26

Actually, it was one murder case shared with cold case investigators to solve murder cases. And it was a Dropbox account created on his personal computer, paid for with his own money, password protected and housed on a server using his work email as a password reset function, a server which can be accessed from any device with internet connection anywhere in the world and therefore not owned by the county. You should read the entire case before you post the bare minimum and a bunch of errors.

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