In Riley v. California (2014), the Supreme Court ruled that police generally need a warrant to search digital information on a cell phone seized during an arrest. This ruling most directly reinforces which constitutional principle?
Police have broad authority to search incident to arrest
Technology falls outside the scope of the Fourth Amendment
Cell phones are exempt from all search and seizure laws
Digital data requires greater Fourth Amendment protection than physical items
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