Hmmm. I can see why the big electronics company would LIKE to sic the police on me, but I do not understand the law being broken. Remember that it was legitimately left behind in a public place. This is something that could result from such carelessness.
The responsibility lies with Apple. They could insist that their prototypes are only for use on their large campus.
Hmmm. I can see why the big electronics company would LIKE to sic the police on me, but I do not understand the law being broken. Remember that it was legitimately left behind in a public place. This is something that could result from such carelessness.
It's a California law, so you'll have to take it up with them. But, the problem didn't stem from the guy who found it, it was the guy who bought it, knowing what it was -- who is in a heap of trouble. And perhaps, the guy who sold it, knowing what it was, too -- as that may be the next article we read about, him being charged and arrested.
Anyway, it's a California law that they're referring to. And you know that no judge would sign a warrant on the basis of no law being broken -- so just getting that warrant where they could confiscate the computers and electroniic equipment of that guy put it way over into probable cause, for sure.
The responsibility lies with Apple. They could insist that their prototypes are only for use on their large campus.
Well, the problem "legally speaking" (regarding the violation of the law), wasn't the "losing of it" -- but it was the buying of it, knowing what it was... there's the problem. There's your crime ...
And I would have to check further, but I would imagine that the guy who sold it, also knowing what it was, is also in a heap of legal trouble.
Hmmm. I can see why the big electronics company would LIKE to sic the police on me, but I do not understand the law being broken. Remember that it was legitimately left behind in a public place. This is something that could result from such carelessness.
The problem wasn't with who left it behind... that's one thing, but that's not related to anything in the law.
The problem was with the law that was broken and therein lies the problem with the guy who had the warrant signed by a judge. Just follow the story through with all the details and you'll see what the problem is.
Check some of the law's wording and a little bit about it in an article in Post #57 ...