In Canada cellphone reviews have long been seen as searches:
Cellphone Searches
December 26, 2009
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/opinion/26sat2.xml
The Ohio Supreme Court has struck an important blow for privacy rights, ruling that the police need a warrant to search a cellphone. The court rightly recognized that cellphones today are a lot more than just telephones, that they hold a wealth of personal information and that the privacy interest in them is considerable. This was the first such ruling from a state supreme court. It is a model for other courts to follow.
Searches generally require warrants, but courts have carved out limited categories in which they are not needed. One of these is that police officers are allowed, when they arrest people, to search them and the area immediately surrounding them, as well as some kinds of containers in their possession.
James Morton
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2 comments:
Why do you insist on this kind of blogging in the holiday season?
You really need to get a life - have some laughs and lighten up.
This is sad.
In Alberta, the police answer the phone of the person they have arrested in order to find out if the calls are about drugs. Do they do that in Ontario too?
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