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The US Customs and Border Protection agency has updated its guidelines for electronic border searches, clarifying what remain broad and potentially invasive procedures. The directive was published today [ January 5, 2018], and it adds new detail to border search rules that were last officially updated in 2009.
Officers can still request that people unlock electronic devices for inspection when they're entering the US, and they can still look through any files or apps on those devices. But consistent with a statement from acting commissioner Kevin McAleenan last summer, they're explicitly banned from accessing cloud data — per these guidelines, that means anything that can't be accessed while the phone's data connection is disabled.
The guidelines also draw a distinction between "basic" and "advanced" searches. If officers connect to the phone (through a wired or wireless connection) and copy or analyze anything on it using external devices, that's an advanced search, and it can only be carried out with reasonable suspicion of illegal activity or a national security concern. A supervisor can approve the search, and "many factors" might create reasonable suspicion, including a terrorist watchlist flag or "other articulable factors."
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Monday January 08 2018, @07:30PM (3 children)
Yeah, that one's been pretty much blown to shreds too.
Doubt me? Try bringing a cannon* with you next time you have to stop by City Hall to get permission to do something innocent with your own property.
* For personal protection, of course.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @11:55PM
How about my pressure cooker, which needs to finish cooking by dinnertime, and my visit to City Hall is going to take all day, meaning I have to keep an eye on it so that I can make sure the pressure release valve isn't sticking such that it might blow up my house or any peoples within it!
:)
Seriously though, my grandparent's generation relied on pressure cookers for 3/4+ of their cooking, and in fact they had to hide then rid the house of pressure cookers when she started to get old and forget she'd left it on the stove. Wish I could have gotten it. Only needed a new pressure release valve to be safe for another 50 years of use.
(Score: 1) by doc_doofus on Tuesday January 09 2018, @03:51PM (1 child)
Common mistake.
A cannon is classified as "armament" vs a rifle which is "arms."
It is the right to keep and bear "arms."
Only the government can keep and bear "armaments."
Thanks for playing.
"Just because you're real, doesn't necessarily mean that you're intelligent." - Inspirobot
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Tuesday January 09 2018, @04:17PM
Interesting perspective I had not heard before. I'm willing to learn more... but presently unconvinced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon [wikipedia.org]
The examples include nuclear weapons and even hypothetical anti-matter weapons.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/armament [wiktionary.org]
So what are large arms?
Of course, we need the archived pages from the late 1700s to determine what the meaning was at that time.