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Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

411 points · 378 comments · rbanffy

TrackerFF · 1790856519 · focus · HN ↗
Yeah, people are unfortunately not informed on just how much power border agents wield. Not only in the US, but in many (most I'd believe) other countries, too. I've worked on cases (intel side) where the law-enforcement side would just wait for the surveillance objects to cross the border, as that's where they could do most data collection with the least hassle.
If for whatever reason you think you're being investigated or surveilled (who knows for what these days, could be enough to just associate with the various protest groups / orgs), you can just assume that the border will be where they'll try to clone / download your data (phones, laptops, whatever)
1. Razengan · 1790883302 · focus · HN ↗
  > Yeah, people are unfortunately not informed on just how much power border agents wield.
  The question is how the fuck did everybody devolve into invertebrates and let it become that way
  If you're not pissed at all the laws that treat you like a bitch, you should at least be pissed at how the ruling class is immune to those laws.
  1. nxc18 · 1790884026 · focus · HN ↗
    > how the fuck did everybody devolve into invertebrates
    This law actually predates the discovery of evolution by some decades.
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_though...

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