Proving illegal cellphone use was the cause of a car crash can be difficult for law enforcement. So one New Jersey lawmaker aims to make the process easier by proposing legislation that would allow police to search through a driver’s cellphone after a crash without a warrant, South Jersey Times reports. Sen. James Holzapfel (R-Ocean) proposed the legislation in June, but privacy advocates have called it unconstitutional. “We’re entitled to have a zone of privacy, and just because technology threatens to pierce that zone of privacy…doesn’t mean we should give up our constitutional protections,” said a trial lawyer and privacy expert.
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