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Fifth Circuit Says Law Enforcement Doesn’t Need Warrants To Search Phones At The Border (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1899058

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (12 children)

I literally have nothing to hide, but conveniently have just reset my phone whenever I’m flying into the US.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Unfortunately, "the border", as defined in US customs law, extends 100 miles inland from the coast. That covers the entire urbanized eastern and western seaboards, or 2/3 of the US population.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit. If I'm mathing correctly, that's like 12% of the entire land mass of the contiguous US.