detained or taken). The two-step procedure of Rule 41 cannot be used in situations like the current matter to bypass this constitutional reality because the data is seized by the government as soon as it is turned over by Apple. Even if, as Professor Orin Kerr has stated, a search does not occur until “the data is exposed to possible human observation,” Orin Kerr, Searches and Seizures in a Digital World, 119 Harv. L. Rev. 531, 551 (2005), the seizure of a potentially massive amount of data without probable cause has still occurred—and the end result is that the government has in its possession information to which it has no right. See In re App., 2013 WL 4647554, at *9 (“The Court notes that while nothing in Section 2703 or Fed.R.Crim.P. 41 may specifically preclude the government from requesting the full content of electronic communications in a specific email account, the Fourth Amendment may do so and does here.”). What the government proposes is that this Court issue a general warrant that would allow a “general, exploratory rummaging in a person’s belongings”—in this case an individual’s e-mail account. Coolidge, 403 U.S. at 467. This Court declines to do so. C. The Electronic Communications Service Provider Should Perform the Search In the Facebook Opinion, this Court urged the government to adopt a procedure that would allow it to obtain the information it legitimately needs for criminal investigations while respecting the Fourth Amendment, such as: 1. Asking the electronic communications service provider to provide specific limited information such as emails or faxes containing certain key words or emails sent to/from certain recipients; 2. Appointing a special master with authority to hire an independent vendor to use computerized search techniques to review the information for relevance and privilege; 3. If the segregation is to be done by government computer personnel, the government must agree in the warrant application that the computer personnel will not disclose to the investigators any information other than that which is the target of the warrant; 9

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