If Courts Won't Protect People's Phones At The Border, Congress Needs To Act Now
26 October 2021
26 October 2021
Invasive searches of people's phones at border crossings and international airports have become standard operating procedure for US border control agencies. The usual justifications have been made: national security and preventing contraband from crossing the border. Those claims may have some merit, but it doesn't explain why the number of invasive searches has exploded over the past few years, even though the number of border crossings hasn't. It also doesn't explain why agencies like Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) continue to claim the program is too important to be curtailed, yet somehow not important enough to be competently supervised or ...
If Courts Won't Protect People's Phones At The Border, Congress Needs To Act Now
Invasive searches of people's phones at border crossings and international airports have become standard operating procedure for US border control agencies. The usual justifications have been made: national security and preventing contraband from...
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