Phone Seized

United States

• Do police need a warrant to search my phone?United States

  Riley v. California requires a warrant before police search your phone’s data after arrest, with narrow exceptions. The ruling, quoted, and where it stops.

• Passcode or Face/Touch ID: does it change your Fifth Amendment position?United States

  Courts are genuinely split on whether unlocking your phone with a passcode or a fingerprint/face scan is protected by the Fifth Amendment. The rulings, quoted.

• CBP and your phone at the U.S. borderUnited States

  What CBP’s device-search directive requires you to present, when it needs suspicion, and what happens if officers can’t get in. Quoted, not guessed.

• Getting a seized phone back, and how long copies are keptUnited States

  How to ask a court for your phone back under Rule 41(g), what a warrant lets police do with a copy afterward, and one honest gap in what this site found.