Supreme Court Texting Case!

One of the most intriguing cases to hit this Supreme Court so far is the latest one coming this week, involving the privacy of text messages.

The case questions whether police were invading privacy when they inspected the personal text messages ofan employee, who technically had been using a government pager. Legal experts say because it involves an unusual situation around a public employee, the ruling is likely to be narrow in scope because of its particular circumstances that won't happen often to other people. But still an interesting foray into new information technology that the court hasn't dealt with much before.

Supreme Court Texting Case!
nytimes

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether a police department violated the constitutional privacy rights of an employee when it inspected personal text messages sent and received on a government pager...The case opens "a new frontier in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence," according to a three-judge panel of an appeals court that ruled in favor of the employee, a police sergeant on the Ontario, Calif., SWAT team...

Supreme Court Texting Case!