Law in the Internet Society

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I. Introduction

As acknowledged in United States v. Jones, Fourth Amendment jurisprudence must evolve with advances in technology. However, the Supreme Court has yet to accept a case involving Fourth Amendment protections for email (only one circuit has held that citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their email). Without clear guidance on how Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is applied to these advances in technology, the legislative branch is likely to provide too little protection. Perhaps this reticence to accept cases is due to a belief that a legislative body is better situated to “gauge changing public attitudes, to draw detailed lines, and to balance privacy and public safety in a comprehensive way.” Jones v. United States, 132 S.Ct 945, 964 (2012) (Alito, Concurring in the Judgment). However, I would argue that courts must provide guidance on how Fourth Amendment jurisprudence applies to the net in order to instruct legislatures on the proper balance in this area. Just as in Jones where the application of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence to a Global-Positioning System (GPS) tracking device attached to an automobile remained unclear, the complexity of advances in the net requires court attention

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