{"id":26368,"date":"2017-03-20T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26368"},"modified":"2017-03-20T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:42:25","slug":"eff-border-agents-need-a-warrant-to-search-travelers-phones-eff-tells-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26368","title":{"rendered":"EFF: Border Agents Need A Warrant to Search Travelers\u2019 Phones, EFF Tells Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/releases\/border-agents-need-warrant-search-travelers-phones-eff-tells-court\">Border Agents Need A Warrant to Search Travelers\u2019 Phones, EFF Tells Court<\/a> (press release):<\/p>\n<p>The Border Isn\u2019t a Constitution-Free Zone<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richmond, Virginia\u2014Border agents must obtain a warrant to search travelers\u2019 phones, tablets, and laptops, which contain a vast trove of sensitive, highly personal information that is protected by the Fourth Amendment, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal appeals court today.<\/p>\n<p>Searches of devices at the border have more than doubled since the inauguration of President Trump\u2014from nearly 25,000 in all of 2016, to 5,000 in February alone. This increase, along with the increasing number of people who carry these devices when they travel, has heightened awareness of the need for stronger privacy rights while crossing the U.S. border. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: Border Agents Need A Warrant to Search Travelers\u2019 Phones, EFF Tells Court (press release): The Border Isn\u2019t a Constitution-Free Zone Richmond, Virginia\u2014Border agents must obtain a warrant to search travelers\u2019 phones, tablets, and laptops, which contain a vast trove &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26368\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-26368","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\/26368","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=26368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26369,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions\/26369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}