Looking Through The Prism of Privacy And Trespass: Smartphones And The Fourth Amendment

Authors

Saby Ghoshray

Abstract

Technology in the twenty-first century has dramatically changed our lives, but the law has not kept pace with technological advances. The treatment of smartphones in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is no exception. This is made evident by the increasingly scattered outcomes of litigation involving the privacy interests of smartphone owners.' As the cross-jurisdictional inconsistencies of judicial decisions applying the Fourth Amendment to smartphones mount, I am drawn to seek answers from two foundational pillars of the Supreme Court's search and seizure jurisprudence: protection against invasions of privacy and the bulwark against trespass.

First Page

73

Recommended Citation

Saby Ghoshray, Looking Through The Prism of Privacy And Trespass: Smartphones And The Fourth Amendment, 16 U.D.C. L. Rev. 73 (2012).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.udc.edu/udclr/vol16/iss1/19