An email from your accountant regarding details of your tax return; racy photos from your daughter’s bachelorette party; your browsing history, which shows multiple visits to sites that list the symptoms of bipolar disorder.
Should police have access to all that, just because they nabbed you on a warrant related to a traffic ticket? Today, if you are arrested, the authorities have the right to search any article found on your person — address book, cigarette pack, wallet, etc. But what of your smart phone, that digital catalog of your life?
That’s the issue before the Supreme Court. Today in Washington, privacy advocates will square off against law enforcement on whether a cell phone carried by someone who is arrested should be subject to search without a warrant.
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