Very good news (Score: 4, Insightful) by chebucto@pipedot.org on 2014-06-26 13:06 (#29A) Especially good parts of this story are- It was unanimous- Roberts specifically addressed the fact that this ruling will make police work more difficult, and concluded that 'privacy has a cost'- They clearly state that modern 'cell phones' are worthy of such protection not because of the type of data on them, but the amount of data on them; that is, while police are able to search wallets, and cell phones contain similar data, the fact that cell phones contain so much more data, and data of such varied types, makes them worthy of protectionA common complaint of the courts is that they don't 'get' technology; this shows to me that the Supereme Court does 'get' the privacy implications of modern data-holding technology. Re: Very good news (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-06-26 13:23 (#29D) Agreed 100%, and I couldn't put it better.What I really, really like is that this decision cuts through the liberal/conservative, left/right divide decisively. It is a false divide, anyway. It is not what matters. The divide that matters is the totalitarian/libertarian one. I am pleased and surprised that the court decision is so decisively on the right^W, er, correct side.
Re: Very good news (Score: 1) by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-06-26 13:23 (#29D) Agreed 100%, and I couldn't put it better.What I really, really like is that this decision cuts through the liberal/conservative, left/right divide decisively. It is a false divide, anyway. It is not what matters. The divide that matters is the totalitarian/libertarian one. I am pleased and surprised that the court decision is so decisively on the right^W, er, correct side.