[bcent]

I agree that the law is horribly behind.

The flip side of your argument, is that a criminal could store his entire criminal enterprise on a phone.

While I feel it's certainly an invasion of privacy to allow the police full access to my phone in the event of an arrest.

I also feel like some enterprising criminal might offer his friends the ability to remotely wipe their phones in the event of their arrest. Effectively destroying the best source of evidence against someone who uses their phone as a central point of control for criminal activity.

Not sure what a middle ground would be, but I sure hope that someone finds one.

[betterunix]

Why should we seek a middle ground? Yes, sometimes criminals will evade prosecution by taking advantage of their civil rights. That does not mean that we should be curtailing civil rights.

Let's put it this way: we have more prisoners than any country on the planet. I do not think we should be concerned about the difficulties police and prosecutors face with evidence collection.

[rayiner]

> Let's put it this way: we have more prisoners than any country on the planet. I do not think we should be concerned about the difficulties police and prosecutors face with evidence collection.

I shouldn't have to tell you the illogic of this argument.