If the court upholds such digital searches without an identified suspect, legal experts say the strategy could expand to pry ...

Explore how geofence warrants and AI-assisted searches challenge the Fourth Amendment. Can 18th-century privacy laws survive 21st-century digital surveillance?

Seven years ago, police in Midlothian, Virginia, sought to identify a bank robber by asking Google to search the records of ...

The technique allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have ...

Some justices seemed to advocate for a relatively narrow ruling that would clarify what such warrants require, even if it ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a government in want of information must be in possession of a warrant. Or, if one prefers to quote the Warren Court, as do critics of NSA surveillance and ...

I have posted a revised version of my draft paper, Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment. It adds a bunch of new cases, including the various opinions from the Fourth Circuit's en banc ruling in ...

The Washington Post America’s spy programs are complex, but the Fourth Amendment is simple. It says the government cannot collect and search through the private communications of United States ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is often an outspoken supporter of the Second Amendment. But this week, the sheriff is wading into debate over a different constitutional right — the ...

A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures, including digital data. Government agencies like ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are reportedly using ...