Comment by Thomas Massie

The Bill of Rights is not a suggestion, and Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searches conducted by the government are not optional. The Surveillance Accountability Act requires government employees to first obtain a warrant based on probable cause before searching Americans’ personal information—even if the information sought is stored on a phone, in the cloud, or held by a third party. Warrantless searches are unconstitutional, and this does not change when the data the government seeks is in digital formats or held by a third party.