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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
24hr seizure on the vehicle is actually more appropriate - they enforce motor vehicle laws, not talking on cell phone laws.
It's not a question of nanny state or not, it's actually quite an egregious abuse of power. I am totally in favour of losing your car for 24 hours though if you are driving it without due care and control (ie. distracted).
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Actually, they enforce laws, period, one of which is the distracted driving law.
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Originally Posted by 4X4
What are they allowed to do with your phone in that 24 hours? Maybe have a look through your contacts and see if you've got any bad friends? Check your pics? Read your email?
This idea is complete BS. I'm not paranoid about a police state, but taking away my phone is more of an invasion of privacy than an inconvenience.
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Originally Posted by flameswin
Yeah, phones are very personal now a days. This isn't the old days, where you dialed out a number or received phone calls. Now a days, people have lots of personal stuff on there.
Think of it this way, would people be okay with the police being given the power to seize people's computers for a day without a warrant? because with the way smart phones are these days, this isn't really that much different.
And the old "oh c'mon, like police are going to do anything with your phone" doesn't apply, as you never want to give authorties the power to do things on the basis of "Don't worry, we won't abuse our power". That's exactly what Vic Toews said when he tried to pass that law that allowed polcie to search internet records without warrants.
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Two things:
One, if you don't have a password lock on your smart phone, you're a fool. There's one scary outcome completely in your control.
Similarly, second, to be one of the people the OP referred to, if you don't like it, don't text or talk while driving. As someone who has just narrowly avoided being seriously injured by people driving along staring at their phone, I would have loved to have seen those drivers pulled over and had their precious phones taken away for 24 hrs.