...The Supreme Courts of California and Ohio (click title to entry - thank you) have come down on opposite sides of the question of whether police need a warrant to search an arrested person’s cellphone. California may be perceived as the tech savvy state thanks to playing host to Silicon Valley, but when it comes to how the law applies to technology, its analysis is rather simplistic. In an opinion issued Monday, California’s court said, “No warrant needed,” equating a cell phone with a pack of cigarettes — Hmmmm. Cell phones are addictive, I suppose — referencing a Supreme Court decision that allowed police to search a cigarette package in an arrested person’s pocket that turned out to contain heroin.
Ohio’s court, on the other hand, ruled in December 2009 that a cell phone is more like a laptop, holding vast amounts of personal information and thus subject to greater privacy protections — namely, a warrant for searching it....
A "Crackberry" IS a laptop.
No different than an iPAD would be.
