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You did read the part about the differences right. Did you carry that desk drawer with you everywhere? Did it record your location? The point is about what the
by EdHominem 11y ago
You did read the part about the differences right. Did you carry that desk drawer with you everywhere? Did it record your location?
The point is about what the law should be to be useful. Not about what the law says, or can be taken to say.
The FBI plays it as if the law binds the people, but the law is the people's, and binds the FBI. We don't have to care what they like. It isn't a two-way street, or a conversation. They're employees. So's Obama.
- rayiner 11y ago> The point is about what the law should be to be useful. The law creates a perfectly useful distinction. What's in your mind is in your mind. What's on inanimate objects, whether they be desk drawers or iPhones, is subject to search.
- jpgvm 11y agoThat is the current law. I'm arguing that it should be changed . Inanimate objects got a lot more advanced in the last 20 years, the law hasn't become nuanced enough to deal with this.
- EdHominem 11y ago> The law creates a [...] distinction Fixed that. Citation needed for the elided segment. Here's a physical iPhone that is not subject to search.