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Judge jails defendant for failing to unlock phones (fox13news.com)
2 points by dantheman on July 16, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


How does a minor marijuana possession even remotely escalate to unlocking your phone?

Especially today, when for many people in America who may not even own laptops, a phone is their own device for managing nearly everything. The 4th amendment should absolutely extend to that device. You're talking about potential banking information, all e-mail, messages, photos, social media; access to nearly everything.




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