“If a police officer can’t look into your trunk when you get pulled over, they certainly can’t download your photos and text messages.”

◼ MICHIGAN COPS CAN NOW STEAL YOUR CELL PHONE DATA — ‘WITHOUT THE OWNER KNOWING’ - The Blaze

CNet.com reports the Michigan State Police (MSP) are using “extraction devices” to download personal information from motorists’ cell phones, including contacts, videos, GPS data, and pictures, “even if they’re not suspected of any crime.”

◼ iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go - Guardian

In a speech, Google's then-chief executive Eric Schmidt suggested that: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines – including Google – do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities."

His words provoked an outcry from privacy rights campaigners, who pointed out that privacy is a right, and that it protects every citizen from abuses by those in power.