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Originally Posted by Karupted Charles
The issue with this is it was not WorlStream's to give away. It like my neighbor letting the police into my house without a warrant. This is a slippery slope and due process exists for a reason.
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Not a great analogy. A closer one is if your tenants, renting your house, lets in the police and the cops find you're operating an unlicensed puppy farm. Being the legal occupants of your house your tenants can allow the police to enter without a warrant. Similarly, it can be argued WorldStream was in a position of legal custodian of the servers.
Neither of these instances is illegal search or seizure. WorldStream may face a civil suit from the actual owners of the servers, but BREIN is off the hook for anything resembling an illegal seizure. (An exception could be if they intimated they had a court order, and did not.) And as long as BREIN did not publish, distribute, or make available any personal information contained on the servers, there's little chance of their being held accountable for breach or privacy.