· by balancing technological innovation with fourth amendment warrant requirements, lawmakers and courts can ensure that ai respects individuals’ reasonable expectation of privacy in the entirety of their movements and conduct, even when exposed to the public. Can a court search an email without a warrant? Are electronic searches a fourth amendment issue? Do courts have a legal argument for a warrant? A person, house, paper, or effect. * elysia wu is a j. d. · underlying this debate rests a critical threshold question: Whether set forth in the warrant or reviewed post- search , courts should require search protocols and query logging to ensure that searches adhere to probable cause and to enable judicial oversight. Will the supreme court hear a keyword search warrant case? If a seizure or search exists, the next step in the analysis is to determine whether it is of something that is protected by the fourth amendment: And if it is, the final question is whether the search or seizure was reasonable. Does the fourth amendment require the government to obtain a valid warrant before accessing a person’s internet search data? · this note assesses the constitutionality of keyword warrants by arguing that the underlying investigative process falls within the ambit of the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant —generally, law enforcement must obtain a warrant when a search would violate a person’s “reasonable expectation of privacy. ” · two recent court cases have raised the question of whether the fourth amendment allows search warrants ordering google to turn over data regarding internet searches of a specific keyword in a. Candidate (2026) at new york university school of law.
