WTF So, the San Mateo police now work for Apple
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wut? how many times have you lost nice sunglasses? can you have the cops kick someone's door in for that? no different here. if you lose something it's your own damned fault, not a police action. a car is obviously different. this is a phone. there are 1000's lost every day
Dharma1521
Soooo do I look as young as I look?
If you know who has them, and they won't give them back, and you can prove it's yours, and they took it, they most certainly can kick down the door to reclaim it.
They being the police.
:thrawn: yes. if you lose a grand in cash at a bar, you're a moron and deserve to be out 1000 bux
:thrawn: yes. if you lose a grand in cash at a bar, you're a moron and deserve to be out 1000 bux
If you lose a grand in cash at a bar, most likely you're in a strip club and had some clue what you were doing in the first place
gizmodo did make a stupid choice but the actions of the police were also stupid. they violated the law in confiscating this guy's stuff when all he did was write the article
A seizure warrant can't be issued in a case like this. The problem is that the police were not confiscating stolen goods. This guy was not in possession of the iphone. All he did was write the article about it. The police took his shit because he may have committed a felony in writing said article. That is against both state and federal law.
This confiscation has zero to do with stolen property laws. If they'd been there to confiscate a stolen iphone it would be perfectly acceptable. But they weren't.
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The scary thing is, and it's glossed over by papers every day, if the police have ANY kind of warrant for ANYTHING against you, when they come in your home, your phone, your computers, any tech, ANY, no matter what the charges, are taken. Always.
And then searched, throughout, for any evidence they can find. They say it's in regards to 'the case', but if they can find anything, anything at all that might indicate other criminal activity, they will then charge you for that too.
It's a bit scary. And I never have heard what the end result is for getting any of that back.
And then searched, throughout, for any evidence they can find. They say it's in regards to 'the case', but if they can find anything, anything at all that might indicate other criminal activity, they will then charge you for that too.
It's a bit scary. And I never have heard what the end result is for getting any of that back.
They taser everyone lately and often do a bad job trying to cover it up. The courts have the cops backs so nothing will be done. I think it's total bullshit they can enter your house without you there and just seize things. It's not like they were there for homeland security reasons.
Yeah, that's pretty much the equivalent of a no-knock warrant. Over a phone.
More I look at it, more I think this one won't be going away anytime soon.
