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Blindly Looking Everywhere: How Reverse Search Warrants Effect the Fourth Amendment

Murphy, Daniel

This work explores how the structure of geofence and reverse keyword search warrants can cause violations of the Fourth Amendment’s particularity clause. These reverse search warrants falsely conflate descriptions of what to search for, with where to search, effectively leading law enforcement to look everywhere for one thing. While geofence and keyword search warrants could be designed such that they might pass constitutional muster, they rarely do because they misunderstand the technology involved, thus causing vague descriptions of search. Therefore, in order to meet the standard of particularity under the Fourth Amendment, reverse search warrants must contend with the amount of data that can be collected from the search, and the accuracy of tracking technology.

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Academic Units
Computer Science
Thesis Advisors
Bellovin, Steven Michael
Degree
B. A., Columbia University
Published Here
May 2, 2024