{"id":35100,"date":"2021-02-10T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=0daa8bfeff1bd78ea1921fec40d33566"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:26:57","slug":"border-agents-can-search-phones-freely-under-new-circuit-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=35100","title":{"rendered":"Border agents can search phones freely under new circuit court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/2\/10\/22276183\/us-appeals-court-first-circuit-border-phone-search-decision-fourth-amendment\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Ah, shit.  That had previously appeared to settle in a much better affirming basic civil liberties sort of way.<\/div><figure><img alt=\"More than 1 million people traveled on planes in US on a single day ahead of Thanksgiving amid coronavirus pandemic\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/PSzIARyHOUsbNp4R5AvCbh4Spq8=\/20x0:2981x1974\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/68798996\/1229742498.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption>David Santiago\/Miami Herald\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>A US appeals court has ruled that Customs and Border Protection agents can conduct in-depth searches of phones and laptops, <a href=\"https:\/\/jolt.law.harvard.edu\/digest\/alasaad-v-mcaleenan-federal-district-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-of-smart-phones-at-u-s-ports-of-entry-unconstitutional\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overturning an earlier legal victory<\/a> for civil liberties groups. <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/22294856\/document_19_.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Circuit Judge Sandra Lynch declared<\/a> that both basic and &ldquo;advanced&rdquo; searches, which include reviewing and copying data without a warrant, fall within &ldquo;permissible constitutional grounds&rdquo; at the American border.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch ruled against a group of US citizens and residents objecting to invasive searches of their electronic devices. The group includes Sidd Bikkannavar, a NASA scientist who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/2\/12\/14583124\/nasa-sidd-bikkannavar-detained-cbp-phone-search-trump-travel-ban\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detained and pressured to unlock<\/a> a secure government-issued phone. Most of the incidents date to 2017, when then-President Donald Trump pushed for tighter border...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/2\/10\/22276183\/us-appeals-court-first-circuit-border-phone-search-decision-fourth-amendment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Santiago\/Miami Herald\/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesA US appeals court has ruled that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=35100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}