Here's a frightening but real proposition: if you are caught breaking
certain traffic laws, not only do police have the right to search
you—they can go through all your electronic data as
well—your text messages, call histories, browsing history,
downloaded emails and photos. In a recent academic paper, South Texas
Assistant Professor Adam Gershowitz explains that because many traffic
violations are arrestable offenses, just as a cop could search your
pockets for drugs, said cop can also search your pockets for a
smartphone and go through all its contents. The same is true for any
standard arrest, and given the amount of data in current smartphones,
it's a scary proposition (even for law-abiding citizens like us).
source
certain traffic laws, not only do police have the right to search
you—they can go through all your electronic data as
well—your text messages, call histories, browsing history,
downloaded emails and photos. In a recent academic paper, South Texas
Assistant Professor Adam Gershowitz explains that because many traffic
violations are arrestable offenses, just as a cop could search your
pockets for drugs, said cop can also search your pockets for a
smartphone and go through all its contents. The same is true for any
standard arrest, and given the amount of data in current smartphones,
it's a scary proposition (even for law-abiding citizens like us).
source
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