Posted on 06/30/2014 3:38:15 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
In a rare unanimous Supreme Court decision yesterday, all nine Justices agreed that, yep, searching your phone without a warrant is indeed illegal. So if a police officer ever does try to dig through your digital dirt unlawfully, this is what you need to do.
The often controversial Chief Justice John Roberts summed the whole thing up with a few delightfully biting lines in the court's decision:
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Absolutely! Hide your dog and cover your parakeet!
Don’t get a phone...
Tamper with evidence? Would you wireless carrier give you up to the cops?
Same here.
Right - but when you’re confronting the cop he/she could pound you into the ground and then charge you for resisting arrest and assault and kicking puppies .... plus wire tapping.
If they didn’t have any right to it, then they would have to prove their case in a court of law. They may have gotten physical possession, but if there is no warrant, they cannot show that they should have it legally. If they weren’t supposed to have it legally, there’s “no evidence” ... :-) ...
It’s always good to have a few recording devices around ... :-) ...
And if they can show me how to take pictures and stuff, I'll gladly turn it over..........
Thank you - that’s a good reminder.
Right - one of those small digital ones - but then, I’ve read if you secretly record a converstion then it’s wire tapping .... I have a recording camera in my car with a microphone - it runs when I drive ....
Knock on wood
Yep, I think everyone should have that ... :-) ...
Put a sticker on your drivers side window indicating that all conversations with the driver are being recorded. Building owners do this all the time to prevent “wire tapping” from cameras on premesis.
:( so, so sorry....but thank you for sharing your experience.
Police beat up and sometimes kill people for resisting unlawful arrests all the time and get away with it.
Depends upon the laws of the state in which you reside. Here it’s perfectly legal to record a conversation so long as one party to that conversation is aware. In other words, it’s only illegal if an individual or entity that was not a party to the conversation recorded it without disclosing that fact.
I have a Fujifilm AX350 with a 64GB memory chip. I can record up to four hours if need be. I just run it in shooting mode and erase the chip at the end of the day.
On my drivers side I have an Israeli Police sticker in English and Hebrew LOL
Thanks for that link. 45 minutes well spent!
I was thinking more along the lines of spelling out “y-o-u-n-e-e-d-a-w-a-r-r-a-n-t”.
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