Last week the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on whether law enforcement’s use of phone tracking data violates constitutional protections. Their questions and comments certainly can lead one to believe they are conflicted about limiting searches of crime suspect’s phones. At least one justice indicated he felt the searches proved to be a practical investigation too in helping to find criminals. But should the court endorse broad digital based searches of large databases held by private companies? How far down that rabbit hole is ok? At what point are the searches no longer reasonable and/or otherwise violate constitutional protections? Do we have reasonable expectations of privacy in some, none or all of our phone data? Presumably these are all good questions and at some point the Supremes will let us know their ultimate thoughts on the issue. It should be interesting to learn what is (or isn’t) protected when it comes to our phones.
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