PASSCODES – Protect Your Mobile Information Prosthetic (smartphone) from Warrantless Searches

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ANTHROBOTIC ADVICE:  USE A PASSCODE FOR YOUR MOBILE PHONE…  NOW.
The mobile phone is an interesting animal.  For many of us, it’s both a literal and figurative representation of self.  Mobile telecommunication is an amazing technology, and the devices themselves can reveal a wealth of information about an individual.  In fact, I’m preparing an article about the mobile phone as a sort of “information prosthetic,” forgive the plug.

But anyway…   Warrantless mobile phone searches should be considered both a breach of social privacy and, in criminal proceedings, an illegal acquisition of suspect information!

USE A PASSCODE, PHONELOCK, PASSWORD – WHATEVER.
It is currently your only defense.

This is not intended to be alarmist – I am all for openness and the voluntary sharing of information via Facebook or some other social platform.  However, the smartphone is indeed a part of us as individuals (a cybernetic prosthetic!).  We shouldn’t have to share the information it contains or accesses without a court order.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a support project here.

[VIA CNN]

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 June 1, 2011  Posted by at 11:44 AM Cybernetics, Human Augmentation, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology Law

Comments

  1. jon says:
    June 2, 2011 at 5:43 AM

    How far we have come from the days of those little digital ‘doo-wop’s we had back in college!