{"id":36085,"date":"2019-01-16T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36085"},"modified":"2019-01-16T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:29:00","slug":"volokh-conspiracy-search-warrants-and-compelled-biometric-access-to-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36085","title":{"rendered":"Volokh Conspiracy: Search Warrants and Compelled Biometric Access to Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volokh Conspiracy: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2019\/01\/15\/search-warrants-and-compelled-biometric\">Search Warrants and Compelled Biometric Access to Phones<\/a> by Orin Kerr:<br \/>\nA new ruling, and some (mostly critical) thoughts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Magistrate Judge Kandis Westmore of the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5684307\/Gov-Uscourts-Cand-336910-1-0.pdf\">handed down an opinion denying a search warrant<\/a> application because the prosecutors asked for a provision compelling everyone present to submit to a fingerprint or other biometric means of unlocking digital devices found there. According to Magistrate Judge Westmore, such a provision would violate the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Westmore also ruled that it would be impermissible for the warrant to allow a seizure of all devices on the scene. In her view, the warrant can only authorize the seizure of devices &#8220;reasonably believed by law enforcement to be owned or controlled by the two suspects identified in the affidavit.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volokh Conspiracy: Search Warrants and Compelled Biometric Access to Phones by Orin Kerr: A new ruling, and some (mostly critical) thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36086,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36085\/revisions\/36086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}