Supreme Court weighs phone searches to find criminals amid complaints of 'digital dragnets'
Does the 4th Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches extend to your smartphone and its tracking data?
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Does the 4th Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches extend to your smartphone and its tracking data?
Every alcohol licensee knows the knock. A liquor investigator, police officer, excise agent, revenue agent, or local enforcement official walks into the licensed premises and asks...
Blocker used Dropbox, a cloud-based file storage and sharing service, to distribute files, including certain files containing child pornography. The post Fourth Amendment-Evidence...
Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court.The federal government recently petitioned for cert...
Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that users generally lack a reasonable expectation of privacy in unprotected Google search records, underscoring how aggressi...
How the digital privacy rights of millions are at stake in Chatrie v. United States.
Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that users generally lack a reasonable expectation of privacy in unprotected Google search records, underscoring how aggressi...
The government wants access to millions of cell phone location histories. The Supreme Court will decide what the Fourth Amendment allows.
The Supreme Court says everyone knows this. We decided to ask people.
Geofence searches allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphone users near crime scenes.
"Geofence" searches illustrate the perilous combination of modern technology and deference to law enforcement.
The 4th Circuit ruled that inventory search exception applies to warrantless search of Milton Allen's bags in Raleigh, reversing suppression of evidence. The post Search & Seiz...
A look at the strikingly different political coalitions for judicial warrants in immigration and spying.
The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that a 12-second police questioning during a Newport News traffic stop did not violate the Fourth Amendment. The post Traffic stop questions did...
On Monday, April 27, the Supreme Court will hear Chatrie v. United States, a case about police access to geofence data, a digital record of a person’s location. This case could ser...
A divided Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the police use of phone tracking data violates the Constitution's protection against "unreasonable searches."
Stenberg was found to have unlawfully refused to submit to a chemical test (blood draw) under Wisconsin’s implied consent law. The post Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine-Fourth...
The amended proposal says that officers may temporarily detain people for a stop and for "other legitimate purposes discovered during the detention." Officials have not said who or...
While the court battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI may draw more eyes Monday, another case getting underway could carry far broader implications for personal freedom. The Supre...
The Supreme Court will hear oral argument next week in Chatrie v. United States, which concerns a Virginia man who was convicted of bank robbery. Okello Chatrie contended in the lo...
At 4:50 p.m. on May 20, 2019, an armed man holding a cell phone walked into the Midlothian, Virginia, branch of the Call Federal Credit Union and handed a note to a teller demandin...
The case will be argued April 27th.
Some justices seemed to advocate for a relatively narrow ruling that would clarify what such warrants require, even if it does not ultimately resolve all of the thorny issues poten...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to allow law enforcement to continue seeking warrants for the location history of cellphones near crime scenes, even as the justice...
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