Warrant? We don't need no stinkin' warrants!
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Ruling lets California police search your phone without a warrant - CNN.com
Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedents, the ruling contends that "The loss of privacy upon arrest extends beyond the arrestee's body to include 'personal property ... immediately associated with the person of the arrestee' at the time of arrest."
Two justices (Kathryn Mickle Werdegar and Carlos Moreno) dissented from the majority opinion: "In light of the vast data storage capacity of smartphones and similar devices, the privacy interests that the federal Constitution's Fourth Amendment was intended to protect would be better served by a rule that did not allow police to rummage at leisure through the wealth of personal and business information that can be carried on a mobile phone or handheld computer merely because the device was taken from an arrestee's person."
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I don't think it unfair, but I do think that it goes above and beyond if it extends into voicemails that you must dial into and access via a PIN even if that PIN is memorized or authorized by the phone itself. I would say then that if you saved your password onto your email or even your IMs all that becomes evidence that can be used against you.
Logging into your home computer or work PC via your smartphone? Is that still within their bounds?
I already lock my cellphone from prying eyes and I'm not compelled to have to give them my password to unlock my phone. I've already got software for remote wiping. I'll have to have a document for my lawyer who can do the remote wipe.
Is it too far? Is it just right? Where do you think the line gets drawn?
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