{"id":23895,"date":"2016-09-28T08:38:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23895"},"modified":"2016-09-28T08:38:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:38:16","slug":"abaj-new-york-considers-textalyzer-bill-to-allow-police-to-see-if-drivers-were-texting-behind-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23895","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ: New York considers &#8216;textalyzer&#8217; bill to allow police to see if drivers were texting behind the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/magazine\/article\/newyork_distracted_driving_textalyzer_bill\/?utm_source=internal&#038;utm_medium=navigation&#038;utm_campaign=most_read\">New York considers &#8216;textalyzer&#8217; bill to allow police to see if drivers were texting behind the wheel<\/a> by Jason Tashea:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colloquially referred to as the \u201ctextalyzer\u201d bill, it has been heralded as both a commonsense solution to the pervasive problem of distracted driving and derided as an infringement of constitutionally protected privacy rights and due process.<\/p>\n<p>Like breath-test laws, the bill uses implied consent, which is given by anyone merely driving on the roads of New York or in possession of a state driver\u2019s license, to justify the search of the phone. The technology, which has yet to be developed, would not collect the call\u2019s content, text messages or social media posts but instead gather metadata, which shows that a call or message occurred. Tools that can collect a phone\u2019s content already exist. Drivers who refuse to hand over their phones risk their license or driving privileges, which \u201cshall be immediately suspended and subsequently revoked,\u201d says the draft legislation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: New York considers &#8216;textalyzer&#8217; bill to allow police to see if drivers were texting behind the wheel by Jason Tashea:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23896,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions\/23896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}