[From article]
The proposed amendment clarifies that unreasonable searches and seizures may not be made of our digital data (i.e., e-mails and data stored on computers or cell phones). This is a logical extension of “papers and effects” from James Madison’s 18th-century version.
HJ 578 reverses what is known as the “third-party doctrine” so that people’s data stored in the cloud would be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Since devices the size of birds used to spy on our backyards, fields, and pastures did not exist in the 18th century, the 21st-century Fourth Amendment includes “lands” as being protected.
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The Fourth Amendment – not politicians, bureaucrats, or even judges – is what prevents America from becoming a police state. It is law enforcement on law enforcement itself. Gallup polls, however, show that Americans fear their government in record numbers.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/21stcentury_fourth_amendment_faces_first_legislative_test_in_virginia.html
January 24, 2015
21st-century Fourth Amendment faces first legislative test in Virginia
By Mark J. Fitzgibbons
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