Do Cops Have A Right To Your Smartphone?

Let’s say your’re driving down Western heading to Beauty Bar, and texting your friends to meet you out front. Then a cop pulls you over for texting & driving, and asks for you to hand over your phone. Does this cop have the right to look at your phone? Do you need to hand it over. With the vast amount of recent cases involving viral videos of cops encounters with smart phones, these questions are becoming more and more relevant. Hit the jump for a conversation held on NBC’s Press:Here, where Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Hanni Fakouri answers some of these notable questions.