Guard the phone! (and other links)

The Supreme Court announced today that police searching a suspect can’t search his cellphone without a warrant. The rationale is that given the amount of personal information on our phones, it’s closer to searching a computer or a house than just frisking a person’s pockets. More here.
•The Supreme Court also ruled that Aero—the company that planned to offer broadcast TV over the Internet without paying cable-type fees—would be breaking the law if it went ahead. So it looks like the company is done for. However it sounds like the ruling stopped short of making a more general ruling that might have threatened various cloud services.
•Are massive salaries for college presidents a good thing?
•A college professor claims his college’s decision not to apply for a Koch Foundation grant is suppression of free speech.

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