Arizona Judge Finds No Expectation Of Privacy In IP Address, Subscriber Info

Mealey's (March 11, 2019, 10:43 AM EDT) -- TUCSON, Ariz. — Finding that an internet user’s internet protocol (IP) address is information that is publicly available and shared with many parties, an Arizona federal judge on March 7 ruled that a man indicted on federal child pornography charges had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his IP address or in the subscriber information supplied by his internet service provider (ISP), adopting a magistrate’s recommendation to deny the indictee’s motion to suppress the information (United States v. Michael James McCutchin, No. 4:17-cr-01517, D. Ariz., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36811)....