The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required
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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.
  • forgetfulmeat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The one time cops tried to search my phone (local police not border patrol) I wouldn’t give my pin. They eventually gave it back but they wiped my phone.