"Searching your phone is just like searching your car. " The rules say that cops need probable cause to search your car during a traffic stop. Any lawyer will tell you that even if you tell a cop that you are against unwarranted searches, you should still let a cop search what they wish in a traffic stop situation, if they insist, and to take up any violations against your person with the court at a later time.
What I do not know is do searches at a traffic stop go beyond what is in plane sight, meaning, are they allowed to read journals or logs kept in a persons car. I do not think they can. A cell phone is like a journal, it has information about where you have been, who you have spoken with, text communications, and what time these things all took place. Morally, and I think legally, this is totally wrong and without a warrant for a persons cell phone (that extends to the information on the phone) no cop has the right to touch your phone. At most a cop can look at the phones wallpaper. I would not let a cop touch my phone, at least not without giving him or her a serious piece of my mind. If cops are allowed to search my phone in this way, what stops them from making copies of any hard drive in my car? I bet the reasons for this illegal search have something to do with child porn and terrorism, it always does. Child porn is the magic bullet for many of the government's illegal searches. Chris... On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Michael Gorman <craterburns...@gmail.com>wrote: > Searching your phone is just like searching your car. If they have reasons > to they can do it. > > I have zero problem with it. They are likely doing it to try and find > people trafficking/dealing drugs. Same stance I have on any invasions of > privacy such as the airport security. It somewhat inconveniences me, but I'm > not doing anything I should be worried they will see. If it puts a single > coked out dealer in jail its worth my slight inconvenience. > > Michael Gorman > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Paul Saenz <forensicneoph...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:51 AM, David Kaiser <dkai...@cdk.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > I'm really seriously thinking we need a true community-driven, open >> > source phone OS. >> >> Absolutely. The government is becoming too invasive. They have no >> business tracking me or any law abiding citizen. I find it interesting >> that there are people who think that it is their duty to put their >> nose into other peoples business all day long. They are not being >> prompted by the people. They just do whatever they want. Isn't the >> government supposed to be by the People, of the People, and for the >> People. >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
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