A Golden Gate law student posted an article about the Ninth Circuit's take on GPS tracking -- a case that gets lost in the Maynard hype. She writes:
The Supreme Court has recognized that law enforcement’s utilization of more advanced forms of technology threatens to diminish the privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. To avoid this, courts should “take the long view, from the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment forward,” so as to protect the rights and privacy
interests of the public. While courts cannot read the Fourth Amendment as confining law enforcement to the technology and tactics available in the eighteenth century, privacy concerns raised by fantastic technological advances oblige the Supreme Court to watch closely to safeguard fairness in the federal court system.
A blog by J. Adam Engel focused non-exclusively on the intersection between criminal law, the Fourth Amendment and emerging technology. Dedicated to the idea that effective law enforcement is not incompatible with a vigorous interpretation of the Fourth Amendment.
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