Have you seen this?
What type of dope would hand over their phone to the cops without a warrant? Cops can ask to search your trunk, but you don’t have to let them. Seems to me the place to fight this is in court between the victims and the obviously corrupt police. Class action or otherwise.
As much as I normally despise the ACLU...
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
I can’t imagine what kind of legal argument the cops could make to support scan and taking the information from a cell phone during a routine stop. Maybe I’m a little hung up on the words “secure... unreasonable... papers and effects... and probable cause.” Maybe I’m not seeing something here.
In any case, this goes along with the idea that you can’t film or record a police office doing his job. The erosion of liberty on so many levels is scary. What next... driving down the street mining data from open wireless portals?
Do the phones have to be on for this device to steal the information? What’s going to stop them from going by our houses and snooping on us?
The TSA’ll throw in a free grope as well..
Does the device have to be physically hooked up to the phone? If so, simply refuse to allow the officer to have the phone or deny having one.
“Sorry officer, I don’t HAVE a cell phone!”
4th Amendment Protection against unreasonable search and seizure!!!
Turn it OFF put it away and he can’t ask for (or demand) it!
Get a warrant officer!
Is there really any proof the cops are using this in routine traffic stops?
This sounds like a typical ACLU over-reach to stop an “office tool” from being used against those arrested and brought in on charges.
C,mon. We all know the Bible here. It pretty clearly states that in the end times there won’t be any privacy. We are seeing it now. Our government has built weapons that won’t kill but will incapacitate people. In the name of compassion? No, so that you can be put to a test. Who will you be loyal to? The State or your family. It’s not oomplicated.
Just enforcing the law right? Where are all of you Sheriff J types now? This is what happens when you let a police state run amok. After 9/11 we should not have allowed the feds to take over an increasingly larger role in security. Once you break that threshold and scare people you lose your freedoms.
I can’t imagine why any “street cop” woudl even want to be bothered with this type of crap.
I think that the story needs to be filed under needs more information. Something is not as it appears here.
I could think of tons of better things to do with my time than downloading just anyone’s cell phone data for grins.
It doesn’t pass the smell test
I need to get me one of these bad boys.
That’s at least an abridgment of my 4th... not to mention a few others
They can shove their new gizmo up their fat wazoo!
This is absolutely and most definitely a warrantless search and seizure without probable cause and exigent circumstances. For once I am totally with the ACLU. This practice has to stop.
Outcries of racial profiling should make it easy for the pigs to further scrutinze even more of the wrong people.