Will the Supreme Court Stop Cops From Reading Your Text Messages?
Update: Tuesday, April 29, 2014: Today, the US Supreme Court is hearing arguments in two cases dealing with this issue: United States v. Wurie and Riley v. California. Constitutional Accountability Center Chief Counsel Elizabeth Wydra, who was in the Court for the morning proceedings, noted that, “Most of the Justices recognized that the vast troves of deeply personal information that Americans carry around on their cell phones raise new concerns regarding police searches incident to arrest. As Justice Kagan in particular noted, such a vast intrusion of privacy could be triggered by an arrest for as minor an infraction as failing to buckle your seatbelt.”
If you’re like many Americans, your cellphone is overflowing with personal information—text messages, emails, photos of your friends and family, an organized history of who you’ve been calling, private notes, automatic login to your Facebook and Twitter accounts, your favorite music, and even maps of where you like to run around your house.
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