Source: Raw Story
By Eric W. Dolan
A digital rights organization told the Oregon Supreme Court that allowing law enforcement officials to search arrestees' cell phones violates privacy protections guaranteed by the Constitution.
In the case Oregon v. Nix, police officers searched through the data on a criminal suspect's cell phone after he had been arrested and placed in a holding cell. The officers did not obtain a warrant for the search, claiming that the search was "incident to arrest," an exception to the warrant requirement that lets officers search for weapons or prevent evidence from being destroyed.
In an amicus brief
filed Friday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argued that law enforcement officials should not be able to search the cell phone of a criminal suspect without a warrant.
Read more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/04/oregon-supreme-court-urged-to-block-warrantless-cell-phones-searches/
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