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Your phone could put you in a police search — even if you did nothing wrong.

The #SCOTUS Chatrie v. United States asks whether police can collect data from every cellphone in a place and time, a case that could reshape your digital privacy rights.

Here’s the latest:
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in reply to The Conversation U.S.

Leave your personal (or work) phone home. It is inconvenient but so is ending up in jail.

This Republican administration is just looking out for your best interests! They want you to spend less time looking at a screen!

in reply to The Conversation U.S.

Wasn't this question already litigated during the GWOT? I can't believe we have to keep asking the state to respect our Constitutional freedoms.
in reply to klausfiend

@klausfiend in the US system it's not as simple as asking and answering once.

There are different branches answering what they SHOULD do vs what they COULD do, and that plays out in different levels of government, and over different cases, and in different contexts.
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