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How the Feds Buy Their Way Around the Fourth Amendment

HE FOURTH AMENDMENT guarantees that every person shall be “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” This means government agents cannot enter your home or rifle through your stuff without a warrant, signed by a judge and based on probable cause. that the government must have a warrant to track people’s movements through their cellphone data.

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