But at least one court decision says the law is unconstitutional, infringing on your right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
Actually, they usually have a little more privacy thanks to the Fourth Amendment which protects against unreasonable search and seizure by government entities.
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Fourth Amendment right to be protected from unreasonable search and seizure.
In his two-count complaint, Dalrymple claims federal agents conducted an illegal raid and alleges his Fourth Amendment rights protecting him against unreasonable search and seizures were violated.
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In a decision this month, Mosman ruled that the Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizures does not guard us from this kind of search.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only dissenting vote, expressed concern that allowing this type of police behavior would undermine the 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
"We believe a warrant is required by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable search and seizure and overrides conflicting provisions in ECPA, " says Drummon.
Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the panel, said the technology may require lawmakers to develop a new definition of an unreasonable search, which is banned under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment.
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In another example of the Constitution failing to keep up with new technology, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Fourth District, ruled last week that our Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure does not extend to GPS tracking.
In a sector where business is inevitably played out online the use of search interest to indicate a wider concern is not unreasonable.
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Rather, we continue to scrutinize searches and seizures effectuated under the longstanding border search power on a case-by-case basis to determine whether the manner of the search and seizure was so egregious as to render it unreasonable.
Civil libertarians worry that overzealous cybersleuths will trample the Fourth Amendment, which bars "unreasonable" searches and seizures, and requires authorities to "particularly describe" the place they want to search and the persons or materials they expect to find.
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