{"id":61885,"date":"2025-09-12T07:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61885"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:48:10","slug":"abaj-as-customs-searches-more-electronic-devices-lawyers-have-some-considerations-when-they-cross-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61885","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ: As Customs searches more electronic devices, lawyers have some considerations when they cross borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/as-cbp-searches-more-electronic-devices-lawyers-have-some-considerations-when-they-cross-borders?utm_source=sfmc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=weekly_email&amp;promo=mk25ann&amp;RefId=marketing&amp;utm_id=1076228&amp;sfmc_id=45492716\">As Customs searches more electronic devices, lawyers have some considerations when they cross borders<\/a> by Anna Stolley Persky:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The government is searching more cellphones and laptops of international travelers than they have in the past, and lawyers need to take extra steps to protect their client information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By its own numbers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is increasingly searching phones, computers and other electronics belonging to international travelers. Between April and June of 2025, CBP agents searched 14,899 devices, a spike of 16.7 percent from the prior significant three-month surge in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom McBrien, counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says searches of electronic devices are \u201cbecoming more and more of a practice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: As Customs searches more electronic devices, lawyers have some considerations when they cross borders by Anna Stolley Persky:<\/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-61885","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\/61885","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=61885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61886,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61885\/revisions\/61886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}