Your Mobile Phone Is Subject To Warrantless Searches In California

Here’s new motivation to password-protect your mobile phone: A ruling from the California Supreme Court gives officers the right to search your mobile—and the giant well of personal data therein—without a warrant. Thanks Tim! Photo by MoRiza. [Ars Technica]

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    Travis New

    Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 3:10 AM

    What about Australia as you know you’re posting on a site with .au….

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      Tim Davis

      Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 6:14 PM

      This obviously has nothing to do with Australia (or anywhere in the USA, except California) but is interesting nonetheless. Just because there is a .com.au version of this site doesn’t mean everything has to be somehow related to Australia

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