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If you drive with your iPhone, police can search it
Why mobile phones and the Fourth Amendment aren't friends.
By Farhad Manjoo [2008-01-23]

  • Naive and Disingenuous

    Cops can't just make up a crime, arrest you, and then use their search powers to charge you with a larger crime. If the original arrest was spurious, then the evidence still won't be admissable.

    Or, y'know, just don't break the law in the first place.

    I got stopped and my ass thrown in jail on a spurious charge because my license had been suspended because I had not paid the $100 annual fine for having excess points on my license.

    Here was the trick-- they sent the bill and notice to an address I had not lived at for five years (my driver's license had my correct present address).

    So, they got my fingerprints into their evil database, they spread the love by making me spend money on getting my car back and getting an attorney to null the charge, they made me have to bug my friend to bail me out of prison. On a charge that in most states is supposedly not a jailable offense.

    I take great care to follow the laws. Apparently, being good is no longer enough or adequate in this society. Now you have to be tricked by authorities to become labeled a 'criminal' by hook or crook.

    Thanks Texas for joining the New World Order.

    -- brightstar65
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    Wednesday, January 23, 2008 01:18 PM
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