Comments on: New York: “Bill Would Let Cops ‘Field Test’ Your Phone After an Accident”

By: Police and prosecution roundup - Overlawyered

Police and prosecution roundup - Overlawyered — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 04:30:14 +0000

[…] people involved in traffic accidents, too” [@reuvenim on the proposed New York law discussed here] “In a bid to get around the Fourth Amendment right to privacy, the textalyzer allegedly […]

By: markm

markm — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:11:27 +0000

And what would prevent the police from investigating everything on the phone once it was in their hands?

By: captnhal

captnhal — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:49:09 +0000

“see if it was used to text right before the accident”

The article says “usage”. I didn’t see where it was limited to “text”.

By: Bill Robelen

Bill Robelen — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:14:41 +0000

It’s my understanding that all the bill does is require the driver to hand over his phone to allow the police to use a device to scan the phone and see if it was used to text right before the accident. It does not allow the police to read content on the phone, it only checks if the phone was used to send or open a text.

By: MattS

MattS — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:33:17 +0000

In reply to ras. Assuming yesterday qualifies as "soon", I'm not sure it does.

By: ras

ras — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 23:11:27 +0000

Soon, Bob, soon.

http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/06/court-rules-living-off-the-grid-is-illegal/

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:39:28 +0000

I don’t have a cel phone. Is that a violation of the law?

Bob

By: Hugo S Cunningham

Hugo S Cunningham — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:20:59 +0000

It also *should* be legal to use hand devices as maps– a lot less awkward than real maps. If one wanted to use that defense, however, it would mean allowing them to rummage in one’s phone.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:09:07 +0000

So there would be my official phone……and my burner phone.

By: ras

ras — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:40:35 +0000

Ph co records shld be able to yell you if/when a ph was texting. no?