{"id":60712,"date":"2025-04-05T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60712"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:55:22","slug":"cnn-canada-warns-travelers-of-us-border-agents-authority-to-search-electronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60712","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Canada warns travelers of US border agents\u2019 authority to search electronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CNN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/05\/world\/canada-travel-advisory-us-electronic-devices-intl-latam\/index.html\">Canada warns travelers of US border agents\u2019 authority to search electronic devices<\/a> by Mohammed Tawfeeq:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian government is warning citizens visiting the United States that US border officials have the authority to search travelers\u2019 electronic devices \u2013 including phones, laptops, and tablets \u2013 without providing a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a revised travel advisory posted online, it urges Canadians to \u201cexpect scrutiny\u201d when crossing the border and warns that refusing to comply involves risks including device seizure, travel delays, or the denial of entry for non-US citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Canada warns travelers of US border agents\u2019 authority to search electronic devices by Mohammed Tawfeeq:<\/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-60712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-search","category-cell-phones","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60712","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=60712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60713,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60712\/revisions\/60713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}