Monday, April 28, 2014

Supreme Court Taking Up Police Searches of Data Troves Known as Cellphones

New York Times

The justices will have to decide how to apply an 18th-century phrase — the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of “unreasonable searches and seizures” — to devices that can contain 100 times more information than is in the Library of Congress’s 72,000-page collection of James Madison’s papers.

Of course.  Make it sound like it is super interest of the state to poke around your private business.  The potential for abuse is staggering.

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