A Fourth Amendment for the 21st Century

Any privacy in public Americans thought they had before the age of modern computers and an ever-growing list of low-cost connected devices came from resource constraints, Reilly Stephens says. Melanie Sun/The Epoch Times

Commentary

“Twentieth-century Fourth Amendment law was really written for a world before computers,” Reilly Stephens, an attorney with the Liberty Justice Center, said in an early September interview. “It was literally written before any kind of modern computers—certainly before cell phones and all those things—and there were these assumptions built into the law that were really based around resource constraints.”