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, like the one in Quincy. “The data a user views on many modern cell phones may not in fact be stored on the device itself,” he wrote. “The same type of data may be stored locally on the device for one user and in the cloud for another.”18 For the first time, the Supreme Court recognized that a search of a phone reached far beyond what was in a person’s physical possession. In effect, new technology had created new grounds for strong privacy protection
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