Supreme Court upholds warrant requirement for cell phone search

[Peter Lemkin]

The privacy difference between information contained in a cell phone, and information broadcast over the airwaves, is constitutionally the same as the privacy difference between thought, and public speech. Now, if the cops don't have permission to be wherever they installed the listening device, that's a whole different kettle of fish.

When one sends information via a carrier on a mobile phone or other electronic device - even a computer - it is NOT anything akin to public speech. It is presumed by the sender and receiver to be private communication - and just as one is supposed to get a warrant to 'tap' an old fashioned phone, one should not be allowed [be thee the local police, FBI, CIA or NSA et al.] to intercept and store that communication/information without reasonable cause presented to a court [other than the kangaroo-rubberstamp FISA court], with a search warrant issued.

Stingrays and similar are even more insidious, as they provide a downlink that is not with your carrier - but directly to the spooks and spies and policestate. It has to be illegal [in a moral/legally based society] if not specifically ordered as OK by a Court and limited to named persons - not everyone in range!