In the event of a car accident should police be able to check your cellphone for activity (but not the content) leading up to the incident?

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Yes

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Not looking at what you said or photos you took but just checking to see if the phone was used leading to the accident.

No different than a breathalyzer as far as i'm concerned.

Feel free to explain your reasoning.

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Punches · 46-50, F

Cell phone records can be pulled later, it is not the pigs job to rummage through somebody cell phone.

Pikachu

@Punches

I'm sensing a bias here lol. But the technology exists to check a phones activity without looking at the content.

How does that differ from the concept of a breathalyzer?

Sharon · F

@Pikachu The breathalyser tests the breath of a known person; a cellphone could have been used by anyone in the vehicle or hands-free by the driver.

Graylight · 51-55, F

@Sharon Studies have shown hands-free phone use to be every bit as dangerous as holding the unit. It's a brain thing, not a dexterity thing.

And as long as it's only metadata with no details, what matter who's phone it is? You can be caught 9 times on camera within the space of a city block - knowing whether a phone was in use is hardly a violation, especially if there's a law against phone use and driving.

Pikachu

@Sharon

Well that's true but if you're driving and your phone sent a text there's a pretty reasonable chance it was you who sent it.