Fed. Appeals Court Says Police Need Warrant to Search Phone

An anonymous reader writes "In a decision that's almost certainly going to result in this issue heading up to the Supreme Court, the Federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals [Friday] ruled that police can't search your phone when they arrest you without a warrant. That's contrary to most courts' previous findings in these kinds of cases where judges have allowed warrantless searches through cell phones." (But in line with the recently mentioned decision in Florida, and seemingly with common sense.)

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Re:The real enemy is the war on drugs

[icebike]

Oh, don't worry, there are a plenty of other reasons that will be pushed to the front even if every drug on the planet were legalized.

We have the war on terror (where mere possession of a piece of wire makes you guilty of possession of bomb making materials)
We have the war on child porn (where picks of your kids first bath makes you a child pornoghrapher)
We have the war on sex crimes (where taking a wiz in an alley after too many beers makes you a sexual predator)

Police were busting down doors without warrants long before there was a drug trade.