My city is currently having a case heard in the Supreme Court over whether police officers have an expectation of privacy in the use of their city-issued cell phones (specifically their text messages).

A quote from the article about the argument before The Supremes in the local paper:

[quote]The argument also displayed the limits on the justices' mastery of modern communications devices as Roberts tried to figure out the role of the text-messaging service in enabling an exchange between two people.

"I thought, you know, you push a button; it goes right to the other thing," Roberts said.

"You mean it doesn't go right to the other thing?" Scalia said.[/quote]

These are the sharpest legal minds in the country, sitting on the highest court in the land - from which there is no appeal. They are charged with making new legal decisions about emerging technology and privacy which will affect all of us and our grandchildren for the rest of our lives. And they have no understanding whatsoever of what they're ruling on. Surely, there is a better way to handle this.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_14916338?source=rss