California Supreme Court strengthens digital privacy rights for probationers

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Date published: August 15, 2019The Mercury News"“The (Supreme) Court says the record is way too thin to justify such a sweeping invasion into his private life,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a researcher who teaches about cybersecurity law at Stanford University. “Probationers have reduced constitutional rights, but they still have rights, and if the state is to be allowed to intrude upon them to the severe degree that an electronics search condition permits, that invasion has to be justified, and it wasn’t here.”"