Supreme Court forbids warrantless police searches of cell phones.
A victory for civil rights: The Supreme Court ruled today that police do not have the right to rummage through your cell phone data without a warrant.
As welcome as this decision is, I must point out the threat posed by this last sentence in the article:
The court did carve out exceptions for “exigencies” that arise, such as major security threats.
Since the Obama administration wanted the right to do warrantless searches, don’t be surprised if this exception grows so that everything possible can be made to fit it.
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A victory for civil rights: The Supreme Court ruled today that police do not have the right to rummage through your cell phone data without a warrant.
As welcome as this decision is, I must point out the threat posed by this last sentence in the article:
The court did carve out exceptions for “exigencies” that arise, such as major security threats.
Since the Obama administration wanted the right to do warrantless searches, don’t be surprised if this exception grows so that everything possible can be made to fit it.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Does this apply to the TSA at the border? I see no exception other than exigent circumstances.
I’ll be interested to see if there is any effort to extend this to the NSA keeping records of everyone’s phone calls; common sense says that “exigent circumstances” does not extend to keeping score of everyone’s calls.