We believe, as you probably do, that internet records are especially sensitive and need to be protected from FBI snooping by a court order and suspicion requirements.
Data like that does not meet the legal standard for "reasonable suspicion" normally required to pursue surveillance, let alone the requirements of probable cause.
The new measures also include limits on the IRS's ability to seize the assets of businesses who have not committed a crime but are under suspicion of evading reporting requirements.
The requirement of individualized suspicion should prohibit this type of dragnet surveillance.
One change added the requirement of "reasonable suspicion" of wrongdoing before a lawyer would be investigated by the inspector general.
Justice O'Connor said that only in "limited circumstances" had the court been willing to set aside the requirement of individual suspicion.
We decline to suspend the usual requirement of individualized suspicion where the police seek to employ a checkpoint primarily for the ordinary enterprise of investigating crimes.
That stopping every car might make it easier to prevent drunken driving, but see post at 469-471, is an insufficient justification for abandoning the requirement of individualized suspicion.
David Cohen, the former deputy director of central intelligence who is now the Police Department's deputy commissioner for intelligence, argues that the consent decree's requirement of a suspicion of criminal activity prevents officers from infiltrating mosques.
In 1997 the United States Supreme Court found a Georgia statute requiring candidates for public office to be drug tested failed to show a need pressing enough to "suppress the fourth amendment's normal requirement of individualised suspicion".
