The California Supreme Court recently decided that police may search the phones of people they've arrested without the need for a warrant. The precedent they followed was based on previous decisions that officers were allowed to search inside of packages that arrestees were carrying. I feel this is a flawed decision. As we've seen in the past the judicial system often has a hard time grappling with technical issues. more
While most of the discussion around social networking sites revolves around privacy, the transparency of social networking sites could play a role for historians. This came to mind while reading about Classical Greek philosophers. Figuring out who, when and where events happened, let alone why, are often based on a few historical documents or the writing of others which often are either unreliable, conflicting or both. more
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