Reverse keyword warrants
Reverse warrants
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What it does
A reverse keyword warrant asks a search engine which accounts searched for specified words in a time window. The company returns a list of accounts. Police do not start with a suspect’s name. They start with the words.
Privacy watchdog concerns
No watchdog page is attached.
Constitutional issues
Unresolved question
Fourth Amendment, First Amendment, Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18
Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency
Reverse keyword warrants: No Nevada keyword warrant is in this build. A search-engine query list can include people who searched for a name, a place, or a political phrase. That First Amendment concern is a question, not a holding. Carpenter does not decide this warrant.
No decision in this library decides a reverse keyword warrant. Carpenter is not applied as a holding about search-engine queries.
Statutes attached to read, not findings.
- NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.
- Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18. State search-and-seizure provision. This page does not quote the section. No section anchor was verified. It is listed only where a search question is actually implicated.
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A civil remedy for a deprivation of federal rights under color of state law. It is not a warrant statute, and it does not itself make a surveillance practice unlawful.
Nevada use
Not documented on this page.
Capability only.
See also: Geofence warrants (Google reverse location)
Next record
Reverse keyword warrants: Do not invent a keyword warrant from a geofence discussion.
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