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 […]
In case you missed my webinar on Privacy Law and the First Amendment, you can watch the replay here. I had a great discussion with Gautam Hans (Cornell Law) about several recent First Amendment cases that intersect with privacy law — the NetChoice cases. Also, if you’re interested, I wrote a blog post about the […]
The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a decision in Carpenter v. United States, an important Fourth Amendment case that was eagerly awaited by many. The decision was widely cheered as a breakthrough in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence — hailed as a “landmark privacy case” and a “major victory for digital privacy [link no longer available].” In the NY […]
Every term, commentators attempt to predict the outcomes of the cases in the Supreme Court docket. The statistics, however, suggest that the betting person’s answer should be reversal.