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Calif. Supreme Court approves warrantless data seizures by police


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Calif. Supreme Court approves warrantless data seizures by police

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 -- 1:00 pm


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If you're arrested in California, data stored on your mobile phone, tablet or other portable computing devices could be seized by police without so much as a search warrant

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By a vote of 5-2, the court said police may "rummage at leisure through the wealth of personal and business information that can be carried on a mobile phone or handheld computer," according to the dissenting opinion of Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar.

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