In a very real sense, the right to own smart phones may become recognized as a human right. In unlikely places—Iran and China, for example—smart phones help provide citizens with rights to assembly and a free press. Even in the United States, rights to smart phones can be tied to the First and Second Amendments of the Bill of Rights. However, like all technologies, cell phones are subject to the dual-use problem. For as many lost, stranded, or injured people who are rescued or helped because of cell phones, there are people who are hurt, ostracized, or embezzled because of them. Indeed, the
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