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The Impact and Future of the Fifth Circuit’s New Hard-Line Stance on Geofence Warrants

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On August 9, 2024, the Fifth Circuit issued its decision in United States v. Smith, No. 23-60321, broadly holding: “that the use of geofence warrants … is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.” This categorical holding...more

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CMA v CAT: High Court supports home search warrants in cartel cases

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On 22 April 2024, the UK High Court handed down its judgment that the Competition Appeal Tribunal had erred in law when it previously refused to grant the Competition & Markets Authority a warrant to search a domestic...more

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English High Court Sets Aside Fundamental Rights to Support CMA Raids of Private Residential Premises | Consequences for...

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The English High Court has issued a landmark judgment confirming the ability of the UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") to conduct raids of private residential premises when investigating suspected cartels....more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Right to Privacy and Computers and Cellular Devices Search Warrants

On January 11, 2022, the Israeli Supreme Court, in an expanded panel of nine justices, prescribed a set of rules concerning procedures and judicial discretion on the granting of search warrants of computers and cellular...more

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Employers’ Toolbox Series: Lessons On Ex Parte Seizure In Five Years Of The DTSA

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The Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), 18 U.S.C. § 1836, et seq., is approaching its fifth anniversary after being signed into law by President Barack Obama on May 11, 2016. To celebrate, we are highlighting some of the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The First Circuit Court of Appeals confirms government’s expansive authority to search electronic devices

In a closely watched decision, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit confirmed the government’s expansive authority to search cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices at the border. On February 9, 2021, the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

No Unreasonable Searches or Seizures of Electronic Data in Michigan

The most intimate information can be found in the data on our cellphones and laptops, from geo-location data to search history. The level of privacy protections afforded to electronic data and communications have been unclear...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Can Law Enforcement Force You To Use Your Finger to Unlock Your Phone?

Can a fingerprint alone provide “testimony” about a person? Earlier this month, a federal court in California said yes. But the court was not engaging in a highly-localized form of palm-reading; rather, the question arose in...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Circuit Remands Case For Limited Remand To Determine Whether The Delay In Obtaining A Search Warrant Rendered The Warrant...

In a recent summary order in United States v. Smith, 17-2446, the Second Circuit (Katzmann, Kearse, Meyer by designation) remanded a case for additional fact-finding on a narrow issue relating to the duration of the time it...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

New Policy for Device Searches at Borders Issued by CBP

In early January 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced an updated policy for searching electronic devices at U.S. borders. The new directive supersedes a previous directive that was released in August 2009....more

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On the Border: Lawmakers Seek to End Warrantless Searches of Electronic Devices by Border Authorities

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The controversial practice of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents randomly demanding that Americans turn over passwords to their mobile devices so they can be searched at the border and at ports of entry may be...more

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New California Law Expands Privacy Rights Applicable To Electronic Data

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On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“CalECPA” or the “Act”), sponsored by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco). The Act requires law...more

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California Enacts CalECPA, Requiring a Search Warrant to Obtain or Access Users’ Electronic Information

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On Thursday, October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (the “California ECPA”). This legislation, which takes effect on January 1, 2015, has been heralded by...more

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California Joins Other States with the Passage of CalECPA

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Law enforcement requests for electronic information, particularly from technology companies such as Google and Twitter, have skyrocketed in recent years. In response, several states—Maine and Texas in 2013, Utah in 2014 and...more

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