The Court said that a smart phone is a lot more than a wallet or briefcase.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Supreme Court supports need for search warrant to search cell phone contents; a cell phone is like a computer, or a closet
Privacy advocates are pleased with a Supreme Court
ruling that police need a search warrant to seize and search your phone, just
as it would your computer. Because, as
Matthew Yglesias wrote today in Vox, your iPhone (or Droid or whatever) is
essentially a computer. It’s not just a
phone. It’s more. It’s like, well, your
attic, or extra space storage. The Vox
piece is here. The slip opinion for Riley v. California is here. It isn’t much of a stretch to imagine that the same logic could apply to NSA
snooping, much of which is already admittedly illegal and which has the
attention of Congress.
The Court said that a smart phone is a lot more than a wallet or briefcase.
The Court said that a smart phone is a lot more than a wallet or briefcase.
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to imagine
how a record of your Internet searches and accesses, even though themselves
legal, set up a pattern which can easily lead police on fishing expeditions and
which could prove incriminating, even leading to someone’s being framed.
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