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Your Cell Phone Is No Longer Private
In a rather shocking opinion yesterday brought to light by MSNBC's Bob Sullivan, the California Supreme Court has ruled that you have no expectation of Privacy as to the Text Message folders on your cell phone. Let me take a step back to review the facts, some of which I've gleaned from the opinion below: Gregory Diaz drove his friend Lorenzo Hampton to meet someone in Thousand Oaks. Hampton sold some Ecstasy to that someone in the backseat of the car, and the buyer happened to be, oops!, an un...

Court: Cops can search cell phone without warrant
The next time you're in California, you might not want to bring your cell phone with you. The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can search the cell phone of a person who's been arrested -- including Text Messages -- without obtaining a warrant, and use that data as evidence. The ruling opens up disturbing possibilities, such as broad, warrantless searches of e-mails, documents and contacts on smart phones, Tablet Computers, and perhaps even Laptop computers, according to legal e...

California Supreme Court: Cell Phone Searches Don't Need a Warrant
Awful 4th amendment decision yesterday in California that searching one's cell phone data does not require a warrant, in a time and place where a cell phone is more like a computer than a phone. Ars Technica with the details: The ruling comes as a result of the conviction of one Gregory Diaz, who was arrested for trying to sell ecstasy to a police informant in 2007 and had his phone confiscated when he arrived at the Police Station. The police eventually went through Diaz's Text Message folder ...

Under Arrest? So Is Your Cell Phone
SAN FRANCISCO -  The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police do not need a warrant to search a cell phone carried by someone under arrest. The justices determined a Ventura County deputy had the right to conduct a warrantless search of the Text Messages of a man he had arrested on suspicion of participating in a Drug Deal. The state court ruled 5-2 that U.S. Supreme Court precedent affirms that police can search items found on defendants when they are arrested. However, the San Fr...

California Supreme Court Allows Warrantless Searches of Cell Phones
The California Supreme Court has handed down an important ruling that allows police to search an arrested person’s cellphone without a warrant — a ruling that will allow police access to a wide array of information now kept on modern cellphones. The California Supreme Court based its decision on U.S. Supreme Court precedent allowing police to seize evidence found with an arrestee when taken into Custody. In People v. Diaz, the California justices relied on the exception for searches ...

No Warrant Necessary for Cell Phone Searches in California
The California Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police officers in the Golden State don’t need a warrant to be able to peruse the cell phones of those under arrest—a decision that may have troubling implications and may eventually involve the U.S. Supreme Court. —KA California Deputy Attorney General Victoria Wilson, who represented the prosecution in the case decided Monday, told the newspaper the split opinions in California and Ohio could lead the U.S. Supreme Court to wei...

No Warrant Necessary for Cell Phone Searches in California
The California Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police officers in the Golden State don’t need a warrant to be able to peruse the cell phones of those under arrest—a decision that may have troubling implications and may eventually involve the U.S. Supreme Court. —KA California Deputy Attorney General Victoria Wilson, who represented the prosecution in the case decided Monday, told the newspaper the split opinions in California and Ohio could lead the U.S. Supreme Court to wei...

California Court Rules Texts Can Be Searched Without Warrant
San Francisco — The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police do not need a warrant to search a cell phone carried by someone under arrest. The justices determined a Ventura County deputy had the right to conduct a warrantless search of the Text Messages of a man he had arrested on suspicion of participating in a Drug Deal. The state court ruled 5-2 that U.S. Supreme Court precedent affirms that police can search items found on defendants when they are arrested. However, the San ...

Calif. Supreme Court approves warrantless data seizures by police
Source: The Raw Story 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. That's thanks to a recent decision by the state's highest court, which declared on Monday that any and all expectations of Privacy are lost once a defendant is in state custody. By a vote of 5-2, the court said police may "rummage at leisure through the wealth of personal and business information that c...

Tablets to dominate gadget show
Has Microsoft fumbled its tablet vision? Tablets look set to hog the headlines at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Industry watchers expect 100 or more of the portable gadgets to be shown off at the four-day technology extravaganza. About 120,000 people are expected to visit the 150,000 sq m (1.6m sq ft) of exhibition halls the show fills. The devices are part of a trend towards greater mobility and smarter living that are starting to define some parts of the market in 20...

Samsung to invest $38.3 bln in 2011
South Korea's Samsung Group said Wednesday it plans to invest almost 40 billion US dollars this year as it tries to get ahead of global rivals still struggling after the Financial Crisis. The nation's largest conglomerate, which accounts for almost 20 percent of South Korea's gross domestic product, will spend 43.1 Trillion won (38.3 billion US dollars) on a range of sectors, including research and development. Its plans also include employing a record 25,000 staff this year, 11 percent up on 20...

S.Korea's Samsung to invest 38.3 bln dlrs in 2011
South Korea's Samsung Group said Wednesday it plans to spend a massive 43.1 Trillion won (38.3 billion US dollars) this year as it looks to outdo rivals in global markets and develop new businesses. The nation's largest business group will invest more than two thirds of the total -- 29.9 Trillion won -- in expanding or building new plants producing semiconductors, liquid crystal display panels and other electronics and 12.1 Trillion won on research and development. The new investment, up 18 perc...

Gaza Two Years Later: 23 days of my life
My first semester at IUG, the Islamic University of Gaza, was quite intense; different life style, freshman zeal, new faces, new troubles, architecture major, and most significantly >> war.  My first final exam - Applied Physics - was scheduled to be on the 27th of December.  As usual, I was hardly prepared and I was actually wishing they’d postpone it! Yeah, I ended up regretting that one. The exam was meant to be held at 11:30 am, so I left the house at ...

Court: No Warrant Needed to Search Cells, Texts
Like this Story? Share it: Police can search an arrested suspect's cell phone Text Messages without a warrant, a California court ruled. (iStockphoto) (AP) San Francisco - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police do not need a warrant to search a cell phone carried by someone under arrest. The justices determined a Ventura County deputy had the right to conduct a warrantless search of the Text Messages of a man he had arrested on suspicion of participating in a Drug Deal. The sta...

Calif Court: Cops Can Search Texts Without Warrant
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police do not need a warrant to search a cell phone carried by someone under arrest. The justices determined a Ventura County deputy had the right to conduct a warrantless search of the Text Messages of a man he had arrested on suspicion of participating in a Drug Deal. The state court ruled 5-2 that U.S. Supreme Court precedent affirms that police can search items found on defendants when they are arrested. However, the San Francisco Chronicle repo...

Court OKs searches of cell phones without warrant
(01-03) 16:25 PST San Francisco -- The California Supreme Court allowed police Monday to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant, saying defendants lose their Privacy rights for any items they're carrying when taken into Custody. Under U.S. Supreme Court precedents, "this loss of Privacy allows police not only to seize anything of importance they find on the arrestee's body ... but also to open and examine what they find," the state court said in a 5-2 ruling. The majority, led by Jus...

Young named Michigan Supreme Court's chief justice
A breakdown of the vote on the seven-member court was not immediately released. But Young, a nominee of the Republican Party, was widely expected to benefit from the GOP’s return to majority after the November election. Young was appointed to the state appeals court by former Gov. John Engler in 1995, and to the Supreme Court in 1999. Contact Dawson Bell: 517-372-8661 or [email protected]. ...

(Arlen) Specter gets a teaching gig at Penn (on Congress & Supreme Court)
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer Finished with a 30-year career in the Senate, Arlen Specter will take his talents to the University of Pennsylvania's Law School, Penn announced Tuesday. As an adjunct faculty member, Specter will teach an upper-level course on the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court, beginning in fall 2011, Penn officials said. "It's a subject matter which could use a lot more understanding. And it's a subject which warrants additional study. Penn Law is a good plac...

Wells Fargo tests smart-phone mobile payments
Wells Fargo is again trying to make Mobile Payments at restaurants and Retailers mainstream, three years after an earlier attempt lost steam. Peter Ho, product manager of card services at the bank, led a test several years ago that let executives use a Nokia phone, rather than a debit or Credit Card, to pay for Fast Food and other items. While he liked the convenience, Wells Fargo didn't end up offering the service to customers, partly because only the one handset was capable of transmitting p...

It's a class act as iPads scroll out in US schools and kindergartens
NEW YORK: As Students returned to class in the US this week, some were carrying brand new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. A growing number of schools across the US are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach history through quiz games, maths with step-by-step animation of complex problems, and Kafka in multimedia. As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School, on Long Island in the state of New York, handed out 47 iPads on December 20 to t...

Eavesdropping on GSM Calls
It's easy and cheap: Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of Eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and Text Messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network "sniffers," a Laptop computer, and a variety of Open Source software. The encryption is lousy: Several of the individual pieces of this GSM hack have been displayed before. The ability to decrypt GSM's 64-bit A5/1 encryption was ...

Underwear claims to keep privates private at airport
ERLANGER, Ky. — Want to maintain some modesty going through full-body machine scans at the airport? A lawyer and blogger says he thinks his new business has an answer for those wanting to protect their modesty without making a scene while going through full-body scanners at airports. Marcus Carey started an apparel line last month that sells clothing with strategically placed patriotic emblems made of special ink he claims will blur out a person's private parts in the image on the machine. ...

CES 2011 Predictions: 7 Trends To Watch At The World's Biggest Tech Show
Las Vegas is currently gearing up for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world's biggest consumer tech expo. From Thursday January 6 through Sunday January 9, companies from around the world will convene at the Las Vegas Convention Center to debut their latest and greatest innovations. We've been culling the rumor mine and staying on top of the buzz to bring you the Hottest predictions for CES 2011. While some of last years Hottest products--including tablet PCs, Smartphones and 3D TVs-...

S.Korea's Samsung Group to invest 38 bln$ in 2011
South Korea's Samsung Group said Wednesday it plans to spend a massive 43.1 Trillion won (38.3 billion US dollars) this year as it looks to expand its presence in global markets and develop new businesses. The nation's largest business group will invest 29.9 Trillion won in expanding or building new plants producing semiconductors, liquid crystal display panels and other electronics and an additional 12.1 Trillion won on research and development. The new investment for 2011, up 18 percent from l...

Trillion-dollar forecast for gadget sales
As the top US Consumer Electronics trade show prepares to open this week, organizers are forecasting that global gadget sales may top one Trillion US dollars this year for the first time ever. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said Tuesday that worldwide annual spending on Mobile Phones, computers, television sets and other items is expected to rise 10 percent in 2011 to 964 billion US dollars. "We may very well hit the Trillion mark," said Steve Koenig, director of industry analysis fo...