International Business Times reports on the ongoing debate in U.S. courts about "how much privacy a phone deserves," as laws protecting phone data are fledgling. A Pennsylvania federal court recently ruled that a warrant is required for law enforcement authorities to obtain call records, while the California Supreme court says a smartphone can be searched upon arrest in the same way a wallet can. Ohio's Supreme Court ruled that the search of a suspect's cellphone was invalid because of the vast amount of data stored on the cellphone, and the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that a warrant for electronic records searches must specify crime-related records.
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