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Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches
An anonymous reader writes In a surprising decision, a split Supreme Court of Canada ruled
this morning that police can search cellphones without a warrant
incident to an arrest. The majority established some conditions, but
ultimately ruled that it could navigate the privacy balance by
establishing some safeguards with the practice. Michael Geist notes
that a strongly worded dissent disagreed, emphasizing the privacy
implications of access to cellphones and the need for judicial
pre-authorization as the best method of addressing the privacy
implications. The U.S.
Supreme Court's June 2014 decision in Riley addressed similar
issues and ruled that a warrant is needed to search a phone.
... while we are out and about and leave our smart phones at home?
This is bat-shit crazy.
30 years ago if you told someone that companies would work to place a GPS tracking unit on every single member of society, tracking every movement they make, along with every click, every URL, every music play, every phone call, every contact, in order to be sold over and over again...
...and that same society would welcome it with open arms...
...I'd probably be using the words "bat-shit crazy" too.
And yet, here we are, hundreds of millions of bat-shit crazy people walking around with these "smart" phones..