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In a victory for privacy rights at the border, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today ruled that forensic searches of electronic devices carried out by border agents without any suspicion that the traveler has committed a crime violate the U.S. Constitution.
The ruling in U.S. v. Kolsuz is the first federal appellate case after the Supreme Court's seminal decision in Riley v. California (2014) to hold that certain border device searches require individualized suspicion that the traveler is involved in criminal wrongdoing. Two other federal appellate opinions this year—from the Fifth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit—included strong analyses by judges who similarly questioned suspicionless border device searches.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NewNic on Monday May 14 2018, @06:36PM
Before you attempt to justify the way police interrogations are done as unconscious confirmation bias, consider this: why are so few interrogations in the USA recorded?
The lack of recording shows an awareness by police that their interrogations are not focused on finding facts and instead, are mostly on finding a way to make the person under interrogation implicate themselves.
The interrogation method taught to police in the USA is known to have a very high false confession rate. Other countries use different techniques which are aimed more at fact finding rather than confirming a pre-conceived notion of guilt.
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