Phones not that different from diaries, judges decide
(NEWSER) - The police don't need a warrant to search a suspect's cellphone for its phone number in order to obtain a history of calls, a federal appeals court. The three-judge panel, ruling on the case of an Indiana man convicted of drug charges on the basis of call records, likened cellphones to diaries, CBS reports. "It's not even clear that we need a rule of law specific to cellphones or other computers," they wrote. "If police are entitled to open a pocket diary to copy the owner's address, they should be entitled to turn on a cellphone to learn its number." More»
