{"id":5455,"date":"2011-04-20T04:44:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T03:45:15","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5455","title":{"rendered":"Techworld: &#8220;Are Police In Michigan Stealing Cellphone Info?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Techland: <a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2011\/04\/19\/are-police-in-michigan-stealing-cellphone-info\/#ixzz1K2yVYTRi\">Are Police In Michigan Stealing Cellphone Info?<\/a> by Graeme McMillan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are Michigan State Police breaking the law and illegally obtaining private information from cellphones? Apparently, it&#8217;ll cost somewhere around $500,000 to find out.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has accused the MSP of using devices to extract information from the cellphones of drivers they&#8217;ve pulled over without the owner&#8217;s knowledge, thereby violating Fourth Amendment rights. Mark Fancher, an ACLU attorney told reporters that cellphones &#8220;can contain information that many people consider to be private, to be beyond the reach of law enforcement and other government actors&#8230; There is great potential for abuse here by a police officer or state trooper who may not be monitored or supervised on the street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response, the MSP has issued a statement saying that it will provide information about the devices and what they&#8217;ve been used to capture, &#8220;in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act,&#8221; but added that &#8220;there may be a processing fee to search for, retrieve, examine and separate exempt material.&#8221; That fee, according to Fancher, has been estimated around $500,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first read the title of the article, I thought it was a paranoid delusion. Then I see the police admit doing something nefarious. It is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/news\/should-cops-be-alowed-to-scan-your-phone-during-a-traffic-stop-5587825?src=rss\">Popular Mechanics<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}