Supreme Court Unanimously Rules ‘Police Need Warrants to Search Cellphones
Published on Jun 25, 2014
In a major statement on privacy rights in the digital
age, the Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled that the police need
warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the
court, said the vast amount of data contained on modern cellphones must be
protected from routine inspection.
The old rules, Chief Justice Roberts said, cannot be
applied to “modern cellphones, which are now such a pervasive and insistent
part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they
were an important feature of human anatomy.”
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