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Is the Fourth Amendment Third Party Doctrine Dead?

Originally posted on Substack Yesterday, I edited Chatrie v. United States (2026) for my casebook, INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW, which Paul Schwartz and I are in the process of updating right now. The U.S. Supreme Court held that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in geolocation data obtained via a geofencing warrant (which compels a company to turn […]

Are Warrants Enough?

Originally posted on Substack This year, in Chatrie v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether geofence warrants are valid under the Fourth Amendment. The geofence warrant at issue in the case was one that allowed the government to obtain account data from Google of hundreds of millions of users. It’s the equivalent to […]