The judges in the case in this article say differently: "The majority also found that whether someone has protected their phone with a password doesn't carry m

The judges in the case in this article say differently: "The majority also found that whether someone has protected their phone with a password doesn't carry much weight in assessing that person's expectation of privacy. "An individual's decision not to password protect his or her cellphone does not indicate any sort of abandonment of the significant privacy interests one generally will have in the contents of the phone," Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote."