First report: Important developments and substantive issues, March-July 2016 2016, para. 24
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- Most important, perhaps, is the realization by the Justices of the United States Supreme Court that the contents of a cell phone are so large in quantity and intimately private in character that they go far beyond the level of privacy that would be intruded upon in a traditional search of one's home as protected by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution: A cell phone search would typically expose to the government far more than the most exhaustive search of a house: A phone not only contains in digital form many sensitive records previously found in the home; it also contains a broad array of private information never found in a home in any form - unless the phone is. In this way, the Justices of the United States Supreme Court showed how the new technology embodied by smartphones has been a game shifter and that at this moment in "Time" (2014), the "Place" (the United States - and the phone located in the United States) where the personal data was to be found had changed significantly to one where portability, quantity and quality of the personal information are capable of completely altering and intensifying the privacy dimension of the personal "Space".
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 24
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