Warrantless device searches at the border have risen over 300% since 2015 – with more than 33,000 searches in 2018 alone. And not just because, as one senator has put it, warrantless device searches render the border “a rights-free zone for Americans who travel”. The truth is that warrantless device searches are actually far more insidious than that. It would be naive to suggest that warrantless device searches at the border are actually border searches in any meaningful senseThere are also few limits to where the information collected in these searches can go, and fast. In light of these facts, it would be naive to suggest that warrantless device searches at the border are actually border searches in any meaningful sense.

Source: The Guardian July 18, 2019 09:56 UTC