# Can cops search your phone?

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-cops-search-your-phone/42470>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [January 26, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-cops-search-your-phone/42470 "2008-01-26T10:12:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Drexial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Drexial](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Drexial)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-cops-search-your-phone/42470/21 "2008-01-27T20:46:36Z")

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> [@Jack](#):
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> So you’re honestly worried about cops planting information into your cell phone? HAHAHA
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> If you are, you’re probably doing something wrong. Sorry… that thought never crossed my mind.
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> The first time I was arrested the cop fabricated most of the story. It was thrown out of court. Geee… you know what? If he had my cell phone he could have taken pictures and put them in my phone… and then he would have had a case. Thank god I don’t have an i-phone… I’d be in jail for something I didn’t do.

Not planting things on my phone, I’m talking about planting drugs and shit like that.

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**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-cops-search-your-phone/42470/22 "2008-01-27T20:52:28Z")

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NOT UNLESS U CONSENT

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**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-cops-search-your-phone/42470/23 "2008-01-27T20:55:12Z")

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> [@JayS](#):
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> **I stopped reading when they tried to argue that a cop has the right to do an arrest search when you get pulled over for a seatbelt violation.** The article lost all credibility at that point. They can only do an arrest search IF THEY ARREST YOU. If you’re getting arrested after being pulled over for not wearing your seatbelt you had to have done something else blatently illegal in plain sight or had a warrant out for your arrest.

Well, this not only happened, it was [upheld by the supreme court](http://archives.cnn.com/2001/LAW/04/24/scotus.arrest.03/index.html).

Once you are (hypothetically) arrested, the search becomes an arrest search and the cop is entitled to look through anything you have on your person.

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**Author:** ![redrum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrum/32/7398_2.png) [@redrum](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/redrum)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-cops-search-your-phone/42470/24 "2008-01-27T21:07:36Z")

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Things are going to become very interesting with our increasing dependence on technology to contain all of our personal information.

Not to go on a tangent, but how many phone numbers do you actually know without your cell to dial it for you?

Back on topic, to play devils advocate, what if you had an envelope stuffed with papers labeled ‘personal’ in your back pocket when you got arrested. Should the cops be able to look through that? What about your wallet? I take civil liberties very seriously, but its important to understand all sides of an argument as well.

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**Author:** ![nitroinsane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-cops-search-your-phone/42470/25 "2008-01-27T21:38:40Z")

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i got nothing to hide but if i did i can break my phone with one hand

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**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/can-cops-search-your-phone/42470/26 "2008-01-28T05:36:27Z")

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no comment. :snky:

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