Supreme Court urged to restore Fourth Amendment protections for digital data

September 30, 2025 | By AMY PEIKOFF

The Supreme Court begins a new term next week. In the coming months, the justices will consider cases touching nearly every corner of American life. Among the cases the Court is being asked to take up is one presenting an important question about digital privacy: can the government demand access to your location data from companies like Google with ...

Supreme Court urged to restore Fourth Amendment protections to data shared with ‘third party’ service providers

April 07, 2025 | By AMY PEIKOFF

When you protect property, you protect privacy. That was the message Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys conveyed in one of eight amicus briefs filed last week in support of James Harper in his petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court in his case, Harper v. O'Donnell. Harper brought his case after discovering that he w ...