{"id":31188,"date":"2018-01-05T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31188"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:12:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:12:02","slug":"nytimes-cellphone-and-computer-searches-at-u-s-border-rise-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31188","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Cellphone and Computer Searches at U.S. Border Rise Under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/05\/us\/politics\/trump-border-search-cellphone-computer.html?_r=0\">Cellphone and Computer Searches at U.S. Border Rise Under Trump<\/a> by Ron Nixon:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Customs officers stationed at the American border and at airports searched an estimated 30,200 cellphones, computers and other electronic devices of people entering and leaving the United States last year \u2014 an almost 60 percent increase from 2016, according to Homeland Security Department data released on Friday. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security officials say border searches are an important investigative tool and are used sparingly by its agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this digital age, border searches of electronic devices are essential to enforcing the law at the U.S. border and to protecting the American people,\u201d said John Wagner, the deputy executive assistant commissioner at Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wagner said the agency was committed to preserving the rights and civil liberties of travelers whose devices are searched.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Cellphone and Computer Searches at U.S. Border Rise Under Trump by Ron Nixon:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-search","category-cell-phones","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188","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=31188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31191,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31188\/revisions\/31191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}