PROPRIETARY.”The three U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who stopped Gal at San Francisco International Airport ordered him to unlock the phone and hand it over, the software engineer said in a Medium post. “This request seemed to aggravate the customs officers,” he wrote in the post titled, “No one should have to travel in fear,” published Tuesday. Gal’s account has now sparked a civil rights complaint by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California. The group is demanding an investigation into whether Customs and Border Protection agents violated Gal’s First and Fourth Amendment rights, and has called for a review of the agency’s border search policies. Anyone can be searched or detained at a border crossing, according to Customs and Border Protection.

Source: Washington Post April 03, 2019 15:15 UTC