An Appeals Court panel has ruled that federal agents can legally search through travelers’ cell phones without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant when they cross an international border.
An Appeals Court panel has ruled that federal agents can legally search through travelers’ cell phones without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant when they cross an international border.
FedEx your phone into the country when traveling into the US… Meet it here.
I was considering this with a laptop scenario. Mail an encrypted drive to the destination or just access a cloud account there, and install a “safe” drive that’s been wiped except for some games, unimportant documents, and maybe browser history to safe boring social media alias with the occasional “why is my poop green” search.
You know, because if you’re already in this scenario, they’ll probably already want to throw you in prison because having an empty laptop or phone they can’t feed to their intelligence-beast is “suspicious.” Being anything but the most braindead consoomer-normie would be “suspicious.”
If I’m leaving the country (and plan on coming back) I’m bringing a burner phone. I’m nobody special but having a bunch of jamook stormtroopers dump all my personal data for kicks sounds pretty un-Americanly disgusting to me on principle.
What a freaking world…
You want to let you phone out of your control for that long?