The Fourth Amendment and New Technology.

The Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Riley v. California, handed down a monumental decision, based upon the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, that protects citizens' rights to be free from unlawful searches and seizures. The decision certainly also implicated an inherent right to privacy found in both First Amendment and Fourth Amendment protections.

The Supreme Court simply held that the police have no right to search through the data on a smart phone/cell phone after they have arrested someone for a crime. The court acknowledged that the information that we now contain on our cell phones is of a private character and stores unlimited amounts of information about us that can only be intruded upon by probable cause shown to a neutral, detached...