{"id":26228,"date":"2017-03-14T06:03:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26228"},"modified":"2017-03-14T06:03:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T11:03:08","slug":"the-root-us-border-agents-can-search-your-cellphone-new-senate-bill-would-require-a-warrant-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26228","title":{"rendered":"The Root: US Border Agents Can Search Your Cellphone, New Senate Bill Would Require a Warrant First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Root: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/u-s-border-agents-can-search-your-cellphone-new-senat-1793246129\">US Border Agents Can Search Your Cellphone, New Senate Bill Would Require a Warrant First<\/a> by Monique Judge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Homeland Security has reported that searches of cellphones by border agents increased five-fold in just one year, and despite protections under the Fourth Amendment against unlawful search and seizure, the practice is completely legal.<\/p>\n<p>Searches of cellphones increased from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016, and according to NBC News, the practice, called \u201cdetaining\u201d cellphones by CBP agents, began a decade ago during the George W. Bush administration, but at the time, it was highly focused on specific individuals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Root: US Border Agents Can Search Your Cellphone, New Senate Bill Would Require a Warrant First by Monique Judge: The Department of Homeland Security has reported that searches of cellphones by border agents increased five-fold in just one year, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26228\">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-26228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-search","category-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26229,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26228\/revisions\/26229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}