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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by TomatoTomato on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:27PM (#36764934)
What about the trunk of your car?
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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by tptacek on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:32PM (#36764995)
You have an expectation of privacy for the contents of your trunk, but it's less firm than that of your house --- your trunk can be searched without a warrant to "inventory" it if it's merely impounded, without suspicion or an arrest.

If the police had a device that enabled them to see into car trunks, it would likely constitute a search requiring "reasonableness" to use it.

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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by fragmede on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:39PM (#36765051)
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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by tptacek on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:46PM (#36765118)
Since the time of the founders, you've had essentially no rights to privacy at border crossings.

"Parallel construction" is a message board argument. At the point where you've decided the law doesn't matter, we can just stop talking about this stuff, because none of it matters.

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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by fragmede on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:44PM (#36765727)
Parallel construction isn't the theoretical stuff of paranoid hackers on online message boards. In a 2013 statement, it was revealed that the DEA uses parallel reconstruction "almost daily" to build criminal cases using evidence gathered by the NSA.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R2013...

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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by tptacek on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:52PM (#36765810)
Yes, yes. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It seems very unlikely that anybody parallel constructed anything here, since an officer was able to see the guns with the assistance of a visor made of his fingers.

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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by chrisco255 on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:41PM (#36765069)
Under what conditions is a car impounded? For a car to be impounded it already was somewhere it shouldn't have been or the driver themselves impaired in some way. Of course they need to be able to search trunks in such a case.
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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by FireBeyond on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:11PM (#36767360)
> For a car to be impounded it already was somewhere it shouldn't have been or the driver themselves impaired in some way. Of course they need to be able to search trunks in such a case.

It could simply have been in a car accident and its driver taken to hospital. It may even have been off the road by the time it was towed to the impound. I see this happen several times a week.

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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by pests on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:37AM (#36774210)
I parked an old beater that was full of my personal belongings (finishing up a move) a few years ago in front of a family members house. I accidently left the keys in the ignition but off. The police impounded it within hours claiming they thought it was abandoned; letting them skip their usual 48 hour wait time for nuisance vehicles.

I would have not been happy if that was searched and inventoried.

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Re:US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circ... by tacocataco on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:40PM (#36766689)
What about a mobile home?

Does the expectation of privacy go up and down depending if the mobile home is driving?

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