{"id":18325,"date":"2015-08-06T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18325"},"modified":"2015-08-06T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:12:07","slug":"open-technology-institute-unreasonable-the-fourth-amendment-and-indefinite-retention-of-digital-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18325","title":{"rendered":"Open Technology Institute: Unreasonable: the Fourth Amendment and Indefinite Retention of Digital Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open Technology Institute: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/oti\/unreasonable-the-fourth-amendment-and-indefinite-retention-of-digital-data\/\">Unreasonable: the Fourth Amendment and Indefinite Retention of Digital Data<\/a> by Laura Moy &#038; Matt Baker:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that \u201cthe rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.\u201d Until the advent of the computer, the courts saw \u201cpapers and effects\u201d as tangible things that could be picked up and moved from one place to another.<\/p>\n<p>But computers and digitized records have changed how we perceive property rights. Today, many of our most important and private documents, photographs, and videos only exist in digital form, as ones and zeros that could be stored anywhere, including in the cloud. Consequently, this brings into question how we now define \u201cpapers and effects\u201d under the Fourth Amendment. As technology continues to change, so will our understanding of property, and our expectation of privacy from government searches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Technology Institute: Unreasonable: the Fourth Amendment and Indefinite Retention of Digital Data by Laura Moy &#038; Matt Baker:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18326,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18325\/revisions\/18326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}