The is article is written by Arkady Bukh, a criminal defense lawyer in New York.
In U.S.A. this issue is still open at least on the Federal level. However, many of the
states have needed to make decisions on what Fourth amendment protections apply
to cell phone text messages. The questions being asked include whether
the police can just pick up a cell phone and look at it contents without a
warrant; can they even pick up the cell phone without a warrant, are the text
messages to and from that particular phone protected private material of the
cell phone owner, or even
