But as device costs plummet and network access approaches ubiquity, the topography of the information world is looking a lot less like the Sierra Nevada, and a lot more like the Savannah.

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He has two college degrees, two decades of experience in information technology, and worked as a network engineer for one of the world's largest telecommunications companies.

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"There can be no reasonable expectation of privacy in a tweet sent around the world, " wrote the judge, who went on to compare information posted on a public network to an eyewitness's account of a crime on the street.

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