The Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases that will set precedents on the expectation of privacy in your mobile devices. American police forces have treated smartphones are equivalent to a notebook -- something that can be thumbed through during a search without a special warrant. But your smartphone potentially holds thousands of photos, access to a lifetime of email, intimate conversations with family, friends (and attorneys!), passwords for dozens of services, and more. Warrantless smartphone searches might give police access to all the most intimate parts of your life -- if that isnt the sort of thing that courts should be overseeing, then what is? boingboing.net/2014/01/18/supreme-court-to-rule-on-warra.html
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 22:49:09 +0000
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