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Butt dialers beware: If you don’t lock your phone, it’s OK to eavesdrop
by justin-case

    "It's a case that seems trivial, almost funny, but it raises an important issue: how will our new technologies interface with our old and vital civil liberties?" Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told Ars by e-mail.

    "It might seem like a case about pocket-dialing, but it's really a case about how much constitutional protection we will have for our data, which can reveal so much about our activities and our identities. The court probably got this one wrong, but the good news, the big picture, is that the Supreme Court sees the big picture and is starting to extend serious constitutional protection to our phones, computers, and the sensitive data they contain."