{"id":53182,"date":"2022-09-19T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53182"},"modified":"2022-09-24T02:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:28:43","slug":"techdirt-device-searches-have-created-a-massive-database-of-american-phone-data-cbp-agents-can-search-at-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53182","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Device Searches Have Created A Massive Database Of American Phone Data CBP Agents Can Search At Will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/tag\/border-searches\/\">Device Searches Have Created A Massive Database Of American Phone Data CBP Agents Can Search At Will<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The \u201cConstitution-free zone\u201d \u2014 the area within 100 miles of any border crossing, port of entry, or international airport \u2014 now apparently covers the entire country in perpetuity.<\/p><p>Border agencies \u2014 mainly Customs and Border Protection (CBP) \u2014 have steadily increased the number of device searches they do every year. Sometimes the search is limited to scrolling through an unlocked phone, an act that can be performed by a CBP agent even without reasonable suspicion. Then there are the more invasive searches, where the phone is seized temporarily and hooked up to a device to extract information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it a border search if it happens a year after you cross the border?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Device Searches Have Created A Massive Database Of American Phone Data CBP Agents Can Search At Will by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53182","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=53182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53230,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53182\/revisions\/53230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}