Orin Kerr

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Professor of law at Stanford, formerly a computer crime prosecutor at the US Justice Department, and the author of The Digital Fourth Amendment. Blogs at The Volokh Conspiracy about search and seizure law and computer crime.

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America 4

A federal officer can violate the Fourth Amendment and the victim still have no way to sue, because the Bivens remedy has been cut back to almost nothing.
The original remedy for an unlawful government entry was an ordinary trespass suit against the officer, and losing it took the teeth out of the Fourth Amendment.

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government 4

A federal officer can violate the Fourth Amendment and the victim still have no way to sue, because the Bivens remedy has been cut back to almost nothing.
The original remedy for an unlawful government entry was an ordinary trespass suit against the officer, and losing it took the teeth out of the Fourth Amendment.

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privacy 3

Whether the Fourth Amendment protects the terms you type into a search engine is a genuinely close question.
A company's terms of service cannot enlarge or shrink your constitutional privacy rights in either direction.

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