This post was co-authored by EFF legal intern Virginia KennedyUnder the Fourth Amendment, police can search your home, your computer, and other private spaces without a warrant or even probable cause if you freely and voluntarily consent to the search. But even when someone consents to a search,...
That’s assuming they actually looked without permission, of course.
If they image your devices and you withdraw consent, they could always get a court order at any time to examine the contents if they haven’t already taken a look.
Right, but they can’t use the data from the device to get the court order to examine it to make it legal to use. Order of things matter here.