A federal appeals court said the US Navy's scanning of the public's computers for images of child pornography constituted "a profound lack of regard for the important limitations on the role of the military in our civilian society."

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) practice led the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals to suppress evidence in the form of images of child pornography that an NCIS agent in Georgia found on a Washington state civilian's computer.

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"This is, literally, the militarization of the police," Dreyer's attorney, Erik Levin, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "They have enough funding that they can go out and stray from the core mission of national security and get into local law enforcement."

Full article:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/court-blasts-us-navy-for-scanning-civilians-computers-for-child-porn/