Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
Not true at all.
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-te...our-electronic
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The government has long claimed that Fourth Amendment protections prohibiting warrantless searches don’t apply at the border."
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-searc...tronic-devices
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All travelers crossing the United States border are subject to CBP inspection. On rare occasions, CBP officers may search a traveler’s mobile phone, computer, camera, or other electronic devices during the inspection process."
And they don't need our passwords to search our phones anymore
https://epic.org/how-cbp-uses-hackin...velers-phones/
"Cellebrite produces a mobile forensics tool, Universal Forensics Extraction Device (UFED), that allows law enforcement to extract data from mobile devices, including encrypted, password-protected, and deleted data. Cellebrite also sells an analytical tool that efficiently decodes, translates, and organizes extracted data. Grayshift’s Graykey is a mobile forensic tool that can extract data from “locked and encrypted” iPhones. PenLink’s PLX software can extract and analyze location data, a person’s social media and email communications, and other files. Magnet AXIOM boasts an ability to recover data from cell phones, computers, and cloud services. To extract cell phone data, Magnet AXIOM pairs with Graykey, Cellebrite, and Oxygen software. Oxygen software, like Graykey and Cellebrite, is a forensic mobile extraction tool that advertises capabilities including “bypassing screen locks, locating passwords to backups, extracting and parsing data from secure applications and uncovering deleted data.” As of today, CBP has at least $1,299,552 worth of active contracts for Cellebrite, Grayshift, PenLink, and Magnet Forensics software."
sure, they can take your phone and use commercial software on it. But they can’t compel you to give them a passcode. Maybe costs you 24 hours in a holding tank. That’s a price I would be willing to pay on principle.