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In many locales they will not be able to retain a phone legally without court order because of laws/rights around search-and-seizure. Unlike a state-issued ID,
by dwaite 5y ago
In many locales they will not be able to retain a phone legally without court order because of laws/rights around search-and-seizure.
Unlike a state-issued ID, the understanding is solidly that the phone is the citizen's property.
- crooked-v 5y ago> legally There's the problem. Cops do plenty of illegal things all the time. That's before even getting into how civil forfeiture exists as a massively profitable and federally-approved end-run around the Constitution.