Electronic Device Searches
The 桃子视频works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
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What's at Stake
Our laptops, tablets, and smartphones contain staggering quantities of personal data. As the U.S. Supreme Court recognized in Riley v. California, smartphones serve not only as telephones, but also as 鈥渃ameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televisions, maps, or newspapers.鈥�
As electronic storage costs go down and electronic devices proliferate, we keep ever greater quantities of private information, from email correspondence to medical records, on our devices. Safeguarding this data against unreasonable government searches is an 桃子视频priority.
The 桃子视频filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Riley v. California,聽a seminal case that resulted in the Supreme Court holding that police must get a warrant if they want to search the contents of a person鈥檚 cell phone after placing that person under arrest. The 桃子视频has also advocated for reasonable limits on the government鈥檚 power to search people鈥檚 laptops and phones at the border聽and for the power of judges to restrict the scope of government searches of computers to avoid overbroad fishing expeditions.
The 桃子视频also fights to preserve people鈥檚 ability to safeguard their own electronic data, including by using strong encryption on their devices. These and other efforts to protect privacy will continue to be vital as electronic devices become ever more central to our lives.
Our laptops, tablets, and smartphones contain staggering quantities of personal data. As the U.S. Supreme Court recognized in Riley v. California, smartphones serve not only as telephones, but also as 鈥渃ameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televisions, maps, or newspapers.鈥�
As electronic storage costs go down and electronic devices proliferate, we keep ever greater quantities of private information, from email correspondence to medical records, on our devices. Safeguarding this data against unreasonable government searches is an 桃子视频priority.
The 桃子视频filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Riley v. California,聽a seminal case that resulted in the Supreme Court holding that police must get a warrant if they want to search the contents of a person鈥檚 cell phone after placing that person under arrest. The 桃子视频has also advocated for reasonable limits on the government鈥檚 power to search people鈥檚 laptops and phones at the border聽and for the power of judges to restrict the scope of government searches of computers to avoid overbroad fishing expeditions.
The 桃子视频also fights to preserve people鈥檚 ability to safeguard their own electronic data, including by using strong encryption on their devices. These and other efforts to protect privacy will continue to be vital as electronic devices become ever more central to our lives.