Microsoft: Riley v. California ruling will advance cloud privacy
June 30, 2014
Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Auuthor: Editorial Staff.
A recent landmark US Supreme Court ruling on the legality of searching a mobile phone without a warrant is a ‘historical moment’ for defenders of privacy rights according to Microsoft general counsel & executive vice president, legal & corporate affairs Brad Smith. This case focused on whether police can search a suspect’s cell phone without a warrant during an arrest.
David Leon Riley was arrested on August 22, 2009 after a traffic stop, which resulted in the discovery of loaded firearms in his car. The officers subsequently seized and searched Riley’s phone and its contents, and the officers charged him with an unrelated shooting that had taken place several weeks prior to his arrest based in part on information found during that search…
Riley argued that the evidence obtained during that search should have been omitted because the search violated his Fourth Amendment rights to privacy and unwarranted search…
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