Supreme Court rules cell phones cannot be searched without a warrant (2014)

Dated 6/25/2014.

Details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_v._California

"Riley v. California, 573 U.S. __ (2014), is a landmark[1] United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that the warrantless search and seizure of digital contents of a cell phone during an arrest is unconstitutional."

OP was probably thinking about the latest cell phone case, which was just accepted and won't be ruled on for a while: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/supreme-court-will-de...

This is interesting. I wonder how these rules apply to searches near borders. EFF says that searches of digital devices at "interior checkpoints" require probable cause, but I think that's different from requiring a warrant. [0]

I also doubt that this applies to cases where TSA asks travelers to unlock their phone.

[0] https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017#interi...