This development is sparking security fears as a massive database has been created, containing not only information from criminals but from average Americans as well. Devices have been seized as people traveled through airports, seaports, and border crossings with their data ostensibly being mined for the database. @CBP scraped data from American travelers to create a searchable database. I uncovered that customs and border officials are storing a massive trove of data from the personal devices of Americans who reenter the country. CBP data shows that they conducted over 37,000 searches of devices in the year prior to October 2021.

Source: Washington Post September 16, 2022 18:04 UTC