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Re:California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffi... by kps on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:30PM (#7074304) 

  > in the case of the phone, the officer never has proof that the phone was on.
The phone company does.
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Re:California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffi... by Karunamon on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:34PM (#7074317)
No, the phone company has evidence that it communicated with tower within some period of time. The phone could still be powered up in a disconnected state, or communicating with the same tower before the driver got into the car, or.. (insert 20 other possible mitigating circumstances)

It's not that simple. Which is one of the reasons it's a good thing this was dismissed.

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Re:California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffi... by vacri on Friday January 17, 2014 @12:59AM (#7074521)
The expense of pulling phone records will outweigh the traffic ticket anyway, and neither party would be particularly interested in going that way.
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Re:California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffi... by iends on Friday January 17, 2014 @12:39AM (#7074475)
Well, his implication was that if you're talking on the phone to somebody the phone company knows (or if you just sent a text, for example).
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Re:California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffi... by gaius on Friday January 17, 2014 @03:31AM (#7074862)
So does the NSA.
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