Mobile-Phone Searches by Police Get Top U.S. Court Review
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether police making an arrest must get a warrant before searching the suspect’s mobile phone, accepting two cases that test the bounds of privacy in the digital age.
Lower courts have reached different conclusions, with some saying police can constitutionally look through a phone just as they can search other objects in the person’s possession at the time of arrest.