‘Keyword Warrants’ Violate Constitutional Rights: Experts

‘Keyword Warrants’ Violate Constitutional Rights: Experts
A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., on May 8, 2019. Paresh Dave/Reuters
Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
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A relatively new type of search warrant that attempts to compel search engines to hand over information on anybody in a certain area who has entered in a set of terms is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, experts say.

“Keyword warrants are a blatantly unconstitutional way to transform every Google search into a government tracking tool,” Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, told The Epoch Times in an email.

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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