The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fourth-circuit-says-border-agents-can-search-your-phone-hand-no-suspicion-required

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ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 29d (1 reply)

The best defense for this is still just having a secondary phone (with pictures from your recent cross-border vacation on it) and nothing else. If the jack-booted dummy asks why no email or IG or whatever simply say "I was on vacation...from all that."

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d

"The 2027 Protect The Children Act states that all US citizens must have an ID on file with Meta Inc."

SpacePanda@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 30d (1 reply)

No thank you, I'd rather go to jail.

alapakala@quokk.au · 4 pts · 29d

Deathcamp*