The Fourth Amendment famously protects against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” As capabilities for government surveillance rapidly develope alongside technology, the amendment has consistently been at the center of discussions over privacy and the scope of state power. In particular, NSA bulk surveillance has recently triggered a debate on the constitutionality of warrantless bulk collection under the Fourth Amendment, and on what should be considered a “reasonable” search in an increasingly digital age.
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The Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment ruling closed the door on such surveillance of Americans and has implications for reauthorization of the USA Freedom Act next year.
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Carpenter holds, for the first time, that a search can occur without it being a taking of information from any particular place, thing, or person.
Fourth Amendment law is now a "best guess." After Carpenter, nobody really can say what the law is. That's unfortunate.
There is a lot that is extraordinary and groundbreaking in Carpenter, but the case makes only a small and likely necessary resolution of an unsettled question in the law of subpoenas.
What the court said in Friday's privacy ruling.
A primer on the privacy ruling the Supreme Court handed down on Friday.
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday in Carpenter v. United States that the acquisition of cell-site data is a Fourth Amendment search. The full opinion is below.
Do authorities need individualized suspicion before they search travelers’ electronic devices at the border? The Eleventh Circuit says no, creating a circuit split on the question.
Drawing on the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Riley v. California, a recent ruling extends new Fourth Amendment protections to travelers’ electronic devices at the border.