4. Magistrate judges should insist that the government waive reliance upon the plain view doctrine in digital evidence cases; and 5. The government's search protocol must be designed to uncover only the information for which it has probable cause, and only that information may be examined by the case agents. See Facebook Opinion, 2013 WL 7856600, at *8 (citing In the Matter of Applications for Search Warrants for Case Nos. 12-MJ-8119-DJW and Information Associated with 12-MJ-9191-DJW Target Email Address, Nos. 12-MJ-8119, 12-MJ-8191, 2012 WL 4383917, at *10 (items 1-2); United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc., 621 F.3d 1162, 1180 (9th Cir. 2010) (Kozinski, J. concurring) (items 3-5)). See also In re Search Warrant, 71 A.3d 1158, 1186 (Vt. 2012) (upholding nine ex ante restrictions on a search warrant for electronic data but holding that the issuing officer could not prevent the government from relying on the plain view doctrine). Despite being warned to “seriously consider how to minimize the amount of information that its search warrant applications seek to be disclosed” or “find this Court unwilling to issue any search and seizure warrants for electronic data that ignore the constitutional obligations to avoid ‘general’ electronic warrants,” Facebook Opinion, 2013 WL 7856600, at *8, the government continues to submit overly broad warrants and makes no effort to balance the law enforcement interest against the obvious expectation of privacy e-mail account holders have in their communications. See United States v. Warshak, 631 F.3d 266, 285-86 (6th Cir. 2010) (“Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication, it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser Fourth Amendment protection.”). In this case, balancing those interests might require that Apple perform the search for relevant e-mails. Indeed, despite any government protestation, a subpoena served on a third party, such as a bank, compels that entity to look within a record set for the particular documents sought. E-mail providers like Apple are technologically sophisticated actors; in fact, one of Apple’s main 10

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