Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches 367
Local ID10T writes with this excerpt from The Blaze: "In a case explicitly decided to set a precedent, the California Appellate court has determined
police officers can rifle through your cellphone during a traffic violation stop. ... Florida and Georgia are among the states that give no protection to a phone during a search. In particular, Florida law treats a smartphone as a 'container' for the purposes of a search, similar to say a cardboard box open on the passenger seat, despite the thousands of personal emails, contacts, and photos a phone can carry stretching back years. But after initially striking down cell phone snooping, California has now joined the list of states that allow cops to go through your phone without a warrant." Interesting additional commentary, too, from UCSD law professor Shaun Martin.
Why not just have fun with it? (Score:2, Funny)
Nothing stopping you from getting a pay as you go phone filled with messages about how much you love police rifling through your contacts and emails. All contacts are for dunkin' donuts in a 50 mile radius. Switch real phone off, turn honeypot phone on. Jobs a good 'un.
A note on the additional commentary (Score:2, Funny)
If you get busted over here (small-ish country in yurp, I'm sure the neighbours aren't any better), then you can count on the police searching your home and whatever else of yours they get their grubby mitts on just in case, for nashonal shecurity, or some such other reason. Partly in response to all this anti-terrorism pressurizing of governments a certain country has shared with the world. So yeah. You go and clean up the mess at home and then change the tune you're pressuring the rest of the world with back to liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all, not just for haliburton contractors with american citizenship, please.