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Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Cellphone Ruling
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has issued its first decision on cell phone privacy and criminal suspects. In short, the court ruled that police do not need a warrant to search call logs on a suspect's cell phone following an arrest.
Civil libertarians worry that Massachusetts may have just taken a step down the slippery slope to a future warrantless searches — not just on your call logs, but your location data, texts, tweets, anything stored on your cellphone.
Guests:
- Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
- Michael O'Keefe, District Attorney for the Cape and Islands
- Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He teaches privacy law at Georgetown Law.
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This segment aired on December 6, 2012.