DOJ urges Supreme Court to allow phone searches without a police warrant

RT

The US Department of Justice is arguing that police should be able to search cell phones taken from suspects upon arrest, lest the suspect or an associate use a universal “kill switch” to remotely lock or wipe the phone before it's searched.

In a brief to the US Supreme Court filed Wednesday in the case of an alleged Boston drug dealer, the Justice Department backed law enforcement’s ability to immediately search a suspect’s phone in case the contents of the phone – potential evidence to the DOJ – are erased by the suspect or someone else before police can inspect it.

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