{"id":32485,"date":"2013-02-10T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/all-your-electrical-devices-are-belong-to-us.html"},"modified":"2013-02-10T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T18:57:31","slug":"all-your-electrical-devices-are-belong-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/all-your-electrical-devices-are-belong-to-us.html","title":{"rendered":"All Your Electrical Devices Are Belong To Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DHS concludes, no surprise, that it would be a burden to have to actually have a "suspicion" they can point to before taking any electronic device you cross the border with — laptop, smart phone, dumb phone,\u00a0thumb drive, anything — and searching through it for Anything Suspicious (or, maybe, fun for them to see.).<\/p>\n

"We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights\/civil liberties benefits."<\/i><\/p>\n

Sure, why would my liberty benefit not worrying that someone's going to be pawing through my love letters to my wife, my personal diary of possibly unpopular religious or political thoughts, my pictures of a political rally, notes about my business dealings, or anything else. If they were sitting on a hard drive in my house, or even in file cabinets at my house, then a little something called the Fourth Amendment would require a reasonable suspicion as confirmed by a judge. \u00a0Now all some DHS guy at a border (or even a few hundred miles from the border) has to do is say, "Hey, he's dressed funny" or "Huh, she's pretty hot" or "Wow, I'm bored and haven't met my Search Quota today" and they can just search pretty much any and everything they want. \u00a0Sweet deal, Constitution notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

Oh, and that includes being able to demand your encryption password.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And, of course, if they do<\/i> find something they can make a charge about (or at least that they think at that point actually is<\/i> suspicious), well, have a nice day. (h\/t +<\/span>Wendy Cockcroft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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The DHS concludes, no surprise, that it would be a burden to have to actually have a "suspicion" they can point to before taking any electronic device you cross the border with — laptop, smart phone, dumb phone,\u00a0thumb drive, anything — and searching through it for Anything Suspicious (or, maybe, fun for them to see.). … Continue reading “All Your Electrical Devices Are Belong To Us”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10831,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/e_search_and_e_seizure.html","url_meta":{"origin":32485,"position":0},"title":"E-Search and e-seizure","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Jun-07 11:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of folks consider their cell phone, PDA, even their laptop, as an extension of their personal being, the same as their home or their diary.\u00a0\u00a0 That makes border...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133100,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/19\/the-supreme-court-unanimously-rules-cell-phone-searches-require-a-warrant.html","url_meta":{"origin":32485,"position":1},"title":"The Supreme Court unanimously rules cell phone searches require a warrant","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Mar-17 5:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's rare you get SCOTUS ruling unanimously on anything of major import, especially related to civil rights, but they did here:'\u201cModern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. 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