When the Police Go Through Your Email: Quirk of Search Law Sets Off Alarm Bells
Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2008
By Dionne Searcey
When you look at your BlackBerry, you see a gadget full of important email, contacts and other files. Increasingly, authorities see admissible evidence. Warrantless searches of the contents of laptops, mobile phones and other wireless devices are being carried out in growing numbers.
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