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RTL Featured in CloudNine E-Discovery Blog

February 7, 2019

On January 8, Doug Austin of CloudNine featured the Ride the Lightning (RTL) post “4th Circuit Says Border Search of Phones Requires Individualized Suspicion (But Not a Warrant)” in his own post. His blog post, “2018 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 2” is featured in CloudNine’s eDiscovery Daily Blog. CloudNine is a legal intelligence technology company with deep expertise in the analysis, processing, and review of electronically stored information (ESI). Ride the Lightning is an electronic evidence and cybersecurity blog by Sensei’s Sharon Nelson.

Excerpt:
Fourth Circuit Rules that Warrantless Cell Phone is Warranted: According to Sharon Nelson’s terrific Ride the Lightning blog (4th Circuit Says Border Search of Phones Requires Individualized Suspicion (But Not a Warrant)), on May 9th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in US v. Kolsuz, ruling that in light of the immense privacy concerns, forensic searches of electronic devices seized at the border must be justified by individualized suspicion, or some reason to believe that a particular traveler had committed a crime.  But not a warrant.

Read the entire post here.