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Fourth Amendment news--iPhone4 search

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In the case of the allegedly stolen iPhone4 from the bar in San Jose to the website Gizmodo, Apple demanded return of the phone and it supposedly was. Then there was a search warrant executed on the place of the person who had it. On the blog Photography is Not a Crime is iPhone raid once again shows a judge leaning against Fourth Amendment: So some drunk fool working for Apple leaves behind an unreleased model of a future generation iPhone at a bar, only for it to wind up in the hands of a technology journalist who described it in detail in a Gizmodo article. Next thing you know, a judge in California is signing a search warrant allowing cops to raid the writer’s home, seizing four computers and two servers. Now Gawker, the company that owns Gizmodo, is accusing authorities of violating state laws that supposedly protect journalists from such raids...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).