ACLU litigation is leading courts to rethink warrants seizing our digital devices, social media accounts and other data to reinforce our Fourth Amendment protections. EDITOR’S NOTE: Jennifer Granick is a leading civil liberties lawyer and scholar. For over eight years, she served as surveillance ...

Warrants must limit the categories of data to be seized from social media or cloud-storage accounts to those responsive to probable cause. Warrants must require service providers to filter within categories, including date limitations, to further narrow the amount of non-responsive data law enforcement officers seize.

In the brief, the groups assert that police should not be able to conduct searches using geofence warrants, a novel and invasive surveillance technique that enables law enforcement to search for and locate unknown numbers of people in a large geographical area without reason to believe they were engaged in criminal conduct.

Whether law enforcement agencies can conduct searches using geofence warrants, a novel and invasive dragnet surveillance technique.

Q: What are warrants and what should I make sure they say? a search or make an arrest. A search warrant allows law enforcement officers to enter the place described in the warrant to look for and take ite s identified in the warrant. An arrest warrant allows law enforcement offic

How the USA-Patriot Act Expands Law Enforcement "Sneak and Peek" Warrants The final version of the anti-terrorism legislation, the Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (H.R. 3162, the "USA PATRIOT Act") would allow law enforcement agencies to delay giving notice when they conduct a search. This means that the government ...