Forensics Journal - Stevenson University 2011 | Page 44

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it was on private property and tracked its position every ten seconds for
a month (U.S. v. Maynard, n.d.). The Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) supported the
position that this was a violation of privacy and required a search warrant.

But in United States v. Arnold in 2008, the court ruled in favor of the government when concerning searches of laptops at the border. “On April
21st, the Ninth Circuit held in United States v. Arnold that the Fourth
Amendment does not require government agents to have reasonable
suspicion before searching laptops or other digital devices at the border,
including international airports” (U.S. v. Arnold, n.d.). This decision
would almost allow the border patrol to search everything w ]