In December 2017, Dontae Hunt dropped his iPhone when he was shot five times by a gunman in an Oregon parking lot. The phone was later found by local police and stored in evidence for 25 months until federal Drug Enforcement Administration officers obtained a warrant, cracked the password and used data found on the iPhone to convict Hunt in 2022 of drug trafficking charges. “The real question is: Does someone expect that because they lost their phone that anyone who finds it—including the police—should be able to look through all their photo albums, their emails, their messages or the entire history of where they’ve been if they have location tracking on?”
Dec 1, 2024 1:00 AM CST
