Join ACS and SLATA for an event on reverse search warrants!

Reverse search warrants require a provider–almost always Google–to search through its entire database of location and keyword search data to identify all users or devices that have been in a geographic area during a certain time period and any person who has entered a certain word or phrase into a search engine. These warrants pose serious threats to Fourth Amendment rights by allowing the government to indiscriminately parse through databases. They turn millions, if not billions of innocent people into suspects.

Panelists Richard Salgado (Lecturer at Stanford Law School and former Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google) and Jennifer Granick (Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel with ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project) will discuss how geofence and keyword warrants work, their impact on Fourth Amendment rights, and recent cases considering their constitutionality.