On: Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion

[petcat]

Customs has always been able to search everything without a warrant or suspicion when crossing the border. I guess this is saying that they can search the digital contents of physical devices/media as well?

[otterley → petcat]

Not everything. From the case itself:

"To be sure, nonroutine searches, which are “more invasive searches, like strip searches, require reasonable suspicion.” Id. But we have held that “the label ‘non-routine’ should generally be reserved for intrusive border searches of the person (such as body-cavity searches or strip searches), not belongings.” United States v. Levy, 803 F.3d 120, 123 n.3 (2d Cir. 2015) (emphasis added)."

[wrs → petcat]

It says they can manually search them. According to this, the ruling explicitly doesn’t say if they can digitally search them.

[inopinatus → wrs]

digitally also means “using the fingers”, so never consent to a digital search without prior clarification

[LocalH → inopinatus]

Two in the pink, one in the stink

[esafak → inopinatus]

You using the whole fist, doc?

[SoftTalker → esafak]

Breathe easy.