The Glade 4.0

There is no long standing jurisprecedent because the devices haven't existed that long. Additionally, the government no longer has the respect for private citizens that it once did.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

They've arrested a drug dealer's home and then posed as drug dealers then arresting all the customers that came over for many years. I first remember it happening in East Side San Jose 30+ years ago. A friend lived down the block and called me to come over and watch the funny with him. One of the cops came over and asked us to stop cheering when they arrested a customer.

After that level of invasion of privacy, how different is it to send a text or ten on someone's phone? Are you going to make texting on someone else's phone illegal?

I don't necessarily approve of it, but I don't see how you can legally argue that it is any worse than what they already have free reign to do.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

That just made me laugh out loud, hahaha! I bet that was fun.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

If the phone is equal to evidence, the police using that device to illicit material without a search warrant, and then modifying the device by their use poses lots of problems. Other courts have gotten it right where the Washington court failed.