Apple and the American Revolution: Remembering Why We Have the Fourth Amendment

This essay provides a concise history of events prior to the Revolutionary War that led to the adoption of the Fourth Amendment and relates that history to current controversies over the use of search warrants to obtain electronically stored information from cell phones and email accounts in the cloud, in particularly the FBI’s attempt to get court orders forcing Apple to create and give to the government software eliminating the user privacy and security features of the iPhone and the pending Microsoft lawsuit against the Department of Justice challenging email search gag orders.

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Great law review essay, draws amazing parallels across 300 years of history and technology.

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Apple and the American Revolution: Remembering Why We Have the Fourth Amendment