The long arm of government can now reach into the medical records of ordinary citizens without a warrant, thanks to the Connecticut Supreme Court. The court held in February that the Fourth Amendment ...

This article explains how new surveillance and biometric tech, like drones and facial recognition, challenge privacy rights.

Nicole is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazines. Recent briefs filed by the federal government make clear that while Fourth Amendment protections cover physical assets, ...

A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), completed in January 2022 but just declassified last week, looks at the relationship between the intelligence community 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 ...

After a string of crimes and injuries at concerts in Seattle, the city implemented mandatory pat downs to enter music venues. This raised the question: does searching civilians without a warrant stand ...

Two months ago, I described what I interpreted to be the overall purpose of the National Security Agency’s electronic surveillance system that was partially exposed by Edward Snowden, and how it most ...

It has been seven years since Professors William Baude and James Y. Stern published “The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment” in the Harvard Law Review. Early this year, Professors Danielle ...

We’ve all watched the cringeworthy hearings where senators take turns “grilling” Big Tech CEOs over why their constituent emails have such low open rates. While the fight over regulating Big Tech ...

Former President Trump's legal counsel said on the Mark Levin Show that he's preparing to file a Fourth Amendment-related legal challenge "very soon" against the Department of Justice in relation to ...