The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required
www.eff.org
The court ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool.
  • Carmakazi@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You’ll almost certainly get charged with “disposing of evidence” or broadly “obstruction” if you give them a duress pin that scrambles your phone. Maybe get smacked around a bit because you injured their authority over you.