Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches
Your cellphones and personal computers shouldn't be protected by the Fourth ammendment; They should be protected by the Fifth. More and more, cellphones, PCs, and even other people's servers are becoming invaluable, impossible-to-live-without brain extensions. That they should be allowed to be used against you in court is insane. The communications that they send and receive should be subject to well-overseen surveillance, but the devices themselves are as much you as you are.<p>I imagine a not too far off future where your glasses tell you your schedule, where haptic and audio feedback are constantly feeding you a stream of your important information; Where even moreso than today, your personal data network <i>is</i> you. There's a chapter in Accellerando ^1 where Manfred's glasses are stolen, and the thug who steals them becomes Manfred by simple virtue of putting them on and being overwhelmed by the signals. He's not a very good Manfred, but he quickly is more Manfred than the person he was. It's only a matter of time before "I" am my newsfeeds, e-mails, calendar reminders, etc.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...</a>