Supreme Court limits cell phone searches

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that law enforcement officers need to get a search warrant before they can search through the contents of someone's smartphone.
The term 'cell phone' is itself misleading shorthand; many of these devices are in fact minicomputers that also happen to have the capacity to be used as a telephone," Roberts wrote. "They could just as easily be called cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televisions, maps, or newspapers.

Re: SCOTUS is old school (Score: 1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-06-25 21:52 (#298)

Duh, people who run out of room for addresses in their Filofax.
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