U.S. Supreme Court
Apr. 21, 2010
High Court Takes Up Texting Privacy
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared unsympathetic Monday to the claims of an Ontario police officer who claims that he had a right to privacy when he sent sexually explicit text messages on a government-issued pager.
By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared unsympathetic Monday to the claims of an Ontario police officer who asserted that he had a right to privacy when he sent sexually explicit text messages on a government-issued pager.
The case raises the question of how the Fourth Amendment applies to new technology.
Justices from both sides of the ideological spectrum seeme...
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