Think the Supreme Court protected your cellphone from warrantless searches? Think again.
July 30, 2014
A look at the ongoing debate about digital privacy and law enforcement just weeks after a major Supreme Court ruling held that police must obtain a warrant before accessing a suspect's cellphone. Border patrol agents have a nearly unlimited ability to perform warrantless searches of Americans' digital lives, based on little more than a hunch. "It truly is a suspicion-less search policy," said Catherine Crump, an assistant law professor at the University of California—Berkeley and a former attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. "When you cross the border, the US government asserts the right to search for no reason at all."
Think the Supreme Court protected your cellphone from warrantless searches? Think again.