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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 02 2019, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the delusions-of-grandeur dept.

This is a guest post by Hugh Handeyside, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project, Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and Esha Bhandari, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. It was originally posted on the ACLU Speak Freely blog.

In September 2017, we, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sued the federal government for its warrantless and suspicionless searches of phones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry.

The government immediately tried to dismiss our case, arguing that the First and Fourth Amendments do not protect against such searches. But the court ruled that our clients — 10 U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident whose phones and laptops were searched while returning to the United States — could move forward with their claims.

Since then, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have had to turn over documents and evidence about why and how they conduct warrantless and suspicionless searches of electronic devices at the border. And their officials have had to sit down with us to explain — under oath — their policies and practices governing such warrantless searches.

What we learned is alarming, and we're now back in court with this new evidence asking the judge to skip trial altogether and rule for our clients.

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/we-got-us-border-officials-testify-under-oath-heres-what-we-found-out


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Friday May 03 2019, @07:27PM (1 child)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Friday May 03 2019, @07:27PM (#838528)

    I really think more Americans should read their news from sources outside their country. Try the BBC, Canada's CBC, Global News, or National Post, he latter of which leans pretty right wing as far as Canadian sources go. Pick another country. It doesn't really matter which, just please stop fucking listening to Fox News.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Sunday May 05 2019, @10:32AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Sunday May 05 2019, @10:32AM (#839162) Homepage
    Deutsche Welle, France24, Al Jazeera, and even RT are better sources of news than the BBC.
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