{"id":12403,"date":"2014-07-04T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12403"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:30:36","slug":"latin-post-despite-supreme-court-ruling-smartphones-can-still-be-searched-by-border-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12403","title":{"rendered":"Latin Post: Despite Supreme Court Ruling, Smartphones Can Still Be Searched by Border Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Latin Post: Despite Supreme Court Ruling, Smartphones Can Still Be Searched by Border Cops<\/a> by Robert Schoon:<\/p>\n

But don’t expect the Supreme Court’s limitations to impact all law enforcement, because, as Aaron Sankin detailed on the Daily Dot, the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) still don’t need to consult with a judge before browsing through your smartphone. In fact, there are very few limitations on CBP searches for both non-citizens and U.S. citizens crossing into the U.S. <\/p>\n

In fact, the only limit behind CBP’s power to search your electronics comes from 2007 case law, according to Sankin, when a circuit court of appeals found that border agents had to have a “reasonable suspicion” of wrongdoing before conducting a thorough “forensic search,” of electronic devices — which could include breaking into password-protected parts of electronics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Latin Post: Despite Supreme Court Ruling, Smartphones Can Still Be Searched by Border Cops by Robert Schoon: But don’t expect the Supreme Court’s limitations to impact all law enforcement, because, as Aaron Sankin detailed on the Daily Dot, the United … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-search","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12404,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions\/12404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}