{"id":31670,"date":"2018-02-05T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31670"},"modified":"2018-02-05T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:34:47","slug":"cato-the-fourth-amendment-still-applies-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31670","title":{"rendered":"Cato: The Fourth Amendment Still Applies Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cato: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/fourth-amendment-still-applies-online\">The Fourth Amendment Still Applies Online<\/a> by Ilya Shapiro and Aaron Barnes:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fourth Amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures by requiring (with limited exceptions) that government agents first obtain a warrant before they go snooping around or confiscating someone\u2019s property. But what exactly does this mean in the modern world of smartphones, wi-fi, and extended Socratic dialogues with Siri? If the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is to be believed, it means that the government can monitor and collect your internet traffic if this information is merely \u201clikely\u201d to be \u201crelevant\u201d to an ongoing criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>That is exactly what happened to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of a website known as \u201cSilk Road,\u201d which enabled users to anonymously buy and sell goods and services. In the course of an investigation into illegal activities associated with the website, the government obtained five \u201cpen\/trap\u201d orders authorizing law enforcement to collect IP (internet protocol) addresses for any internet traffic going to or from Ulbricht\u2019s wireless router and other electronic devices. These orders were obtained in lieu of a warrant under a statutory \u201crelevance\u201d standard that falls well short of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s requirement for probable cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cato: The Fourth Amendment Still Applies Online by Ilya Shapiro and Aaron Barnes:<\/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-31670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670","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=31670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31671,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31670\/revisions\/31671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}