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electronic file cabinet

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noun

  1. computing a device, controlled by software, for the storage and retrieval of information

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Lawyers for the employee argued that the FBI had violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search by seizing messages from a storage device that constituted his personal "electronic file cabinet."

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