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.

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post.The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the…

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      10 days ago

      If you aren’t a citizen, yes. If you are a citizen they can’t deny you entry, but they can hold your device for a period of time.

      • quick_snail@feddit.nl
        2·
        10 days ago

        Better they steal my phone than I violate the privacy of all my friends and family by letting them unlock it