A SCOTUS case exposes the dangers of 2 misguided Fourth Amendment doctrines

Seven years ago, police in Midlothian, Virginia, sought to identify a bank robber by asking Google to search the records of ...
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Blockchain’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment Privacy Paradoxes

Blockchain is frequently conceived of as a tool for confidentiality and privacy, but two federal court of appeals decisions from the latter part of last year highlight how limited that hope often ...
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The First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and Substantial Encouragement

Part of the Murthy v. Missouri challengers' claim is that the First Amendment bans the government from even "substantially encouraging" private entities to block user speech. And as I noted in the ...
Reason

The Fourth Amendment and the "Instinctive" Drug Detection Dog

Lower courts are divided on the Fourth Amendment implications of a drug detection dog that jumps into a car on its own and then alerts to illegal drugs. I thought I would offer some thoughts on the ...
Law

9th Circuit Rules FBI Violated Fourth Amendment Due to Warrant's Lack of Specificity

9th Circuit Rules FBI Violated Fourth Amendment Due to Warrant's Lack of Specificity The opinion held that the FBI's search and seizure of the plaintiffs' safe deposit boxes violated their Fourth ...