23.07.2014 - 06:35 [ Techdirt ]

Supreme Court Ruling Over Mobile Phone Searches May Really Be The First ‚Internet Of Things‘ Ruling

Advocates of digital privacy scored a major victory when the Supreme Court recently ruled that police need a warrant to search cellphones. In Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie, two cases that pivot on the legality of searching personal computing devices, what is becoming a tech-centric high court recognized not only the pervasive role technology is playing in modern society, but also the growing personal data that exists as we digitize larger swaths of our everyday lives.