Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches, updates privacy laws

Source: Washington Times The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police must obtain warrants before snooping through people’s cellphones, delivering a unanimous decision that begins to update legal understanding of privacy rules to accommodate 21st-century technology. Police agencies argued that searching through data on cellphones was no different from asking someone to turn out his pockets, … Continue reading Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches, updates privacy laws