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?

Recently, FBI Director Kash Patel told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the Bureau purchases commercially available data that can track Americans’ movements and location histories. When Sen. Ron ...

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 ...

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

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

A recent New York court case upheld a murder conviction despite claims that DNA evidence used violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case highlights ongoing legal questions about ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Conservative Republicans have a three-word response to government demands to spy on Americans’ telecommunications: “Get a warrant.” When it comes to the same government breaking into ...

Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that users generally lack a reasonable expectation of privacy in unprotected Google ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case with potentially major implications for how law enforcement ...