amicus Fourth Amendment Ganias United States v. Ganias
Federal Court Leaves Digital Search Law Unresolved
A federal appeals court ruled today that the government did not violate the Fourth Amendment by keeping a copy of files for more than two years after an investigation because it acted in "good faith." EPIC argued that the government must adopt data minimization practices and that the use of evidence was unlawful. In a dissenting opinion, Judge Chin wrote that the search violated the Fourth Amendment.