Is access to our phones a step toward the police wanting access to our minds?

Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 08:00 in Psychology & Sociology

We use our smartphones so much these days, it almost feels like they have become extensions of ourselves, boosting our capacity to calculate and remember. What might come of this closer union of human and technological device? If police can serve a warrant to search your phone, and we see these devices as extensions of ourselves, how long until investigators one day serve a warrant to search your mind?

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