Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones Supreme Court Says Phones Can’t Be Searched Without a Warrant!!!!! A victory for the citizens Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called cellphones a pervasive and insistent part of daily life. WASHINGTON — In a major statement on privacy rights in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the court, said the vast amount of data contained on modern cellphones must be protected from routine inspection. The old rules, Chief Justice Roberts said, cannot be applied to “modern cellphones, which are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy.” The courts have long allowed warrantless searches in connection with arrests, saying they are justified by the need to protect police officers and to prevent the destruction of evidence.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:09:59 +0000
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