“The paper's authors, Benjamin Wittes and Jane Chong, are not technologists: Wittes writes about law, and Chong is a lawyer. Their argument is primarily legal and based in part on the Supreme Court decision in Riley v. California from June. In it, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that modern mobile phones "are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial visitor from Mars might conclude they were an important feature of human anatomy," and so police should not be able to search them without a warrant when making an arrest.” - × × ×