{"id":8012,"date":"2012-11-28T05:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:52:20","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8012","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: &#8220;Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/26\/technology\/legality-of-warrantless-cellphone-searches-goes-to-courts-and-legislatures.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0\">Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones<\/a> by Somini Sengupta: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects\u2019 cellphones, and the cornucopia of evidence they provide. <\/p>\n<p>A Rhode Island judge threw out cellphone evidence that led to a man being charged with the murder of a 6-year-old boy, saying the police needed a search warrant. A court in Washington compared text messages to voice mail messages that can be overheard by anyone in a room and are therefore not protected by state privacy laws. <\/p>\n<p>In Louisiana, a federal appeals court is weighing whether location records stored in smartphones deserve privacy protection, or whether they are \u201cbusiness records\u201d that belong to the phone companies. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8012\">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-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}