While the Fourth Amendment was adopted to protect people in their homes, Roberts explained that modern phones “typically expose to the government far more than the most exhaustive search of a house: A phone not only contains in digital form many sensitive records previously found in the home; it also contains a broad array of private information never found in a home in any form.”17 Hence the Fourth Amendment applied. We cheered when we read what Roberts wrote next. For the first time, the Supreme Court in effect addressed the files stored in our data centers,
