School Spy Cams , Now Police Want To Search Your Cell Phone

[lib2DaBone]

..I know Border Patrol and Customs routinely search laptops to look for obscene pictures and copyright material...

TSA roams the airports...swabs our palms and x-rays our genitals.. how long before they dissect our cell phones?

Does you mother-in-law owe money to QVC or Home Shopping? Failed to pay on time? Did you call her yesterday? You may be an accessory to a crime!

Hand over your cell phone Citizen..


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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10455611-38.html


Police push for warrant-less searches of cell phones


A San Mateo County judge is scheduled to hear testimony on Thursday morning in this case, which could set new ground rules for when police can conduct warrant-less searches of iPhones, laptops, and similarly capacious electronic gadgets.

This is an important legal question that remains unresolved: as our gadgets store more and more information about us, including our appointments, correspondence, and personal photos and videos, what rules should police investigators be required to follow? The Obama administration and many local prosecutors' answer is that warrant-less searches are perfectly constitutional during arrests.

[NightWatcher]

1. seems that phones and laptops should be covered under the 4th

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures..."

Papers and effects, sounds reasonable to me.

[Nay]

6. Yeah, what is it about "EFFECTS" that the courts don't understand?

It means "property" and so, obviously, your phone or laptop is protected from warrantless search. But in Bizarro World, who knows what the hell they will decide.

[snappyturtle]

2. How can this not be considered an invasion of privacy. Warrant-less?? nt

[krabigirl]

3. Nothing to see here, Tiger Woods is on the teevee, move along, move along. (jk)

[12AngryMen]

4. It's gettin' tighter

everywhere you look.

[MineralMan]

5. Every step you take...every move you make...

I'll be watching you. Yes, indeed. Take that as you wish.

[madinmaryland]

7. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[pokerfan]

8. privacy

It's about the next 20 years. Twenties and thirties, it was the role of government. Fifties and sixties, it was civil rights. The next two decades, it's gonna be privacy. I'm talking about the Internet. I'm talking about cellphones. I'm talking about health records, and who's gay and who's not. And moreover, in a country born on a will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?
~Sam Seaborn, The West Wing, The Short List (episode 1x09)