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DHS Documents Show Harassment And Intrusive Device Searches Are A Common Occurrence At US Borders

Posted on January 2, 2018 by pogowasright.org

Tim Cushing writes:

This is apparently the price we pay to live in the Land of the Free:

Grievances over lost privacy run through a trove of roughly 250 complaints by people whose laptops and phones were searched without a warrant as they crossed the United States border. Filed with the Department of Homeland Security since 2011, mostly during the Obama administration, these stories add a personal dimension to a growing debate over rights, security and technology.

There are nearly 100 pages of long, detailed complaints in the document [PDF] turned over by the DHS in response to the Knight Institute’s’ FOIA request.

Read more on TechDirt.

Category: GovtSurveillanceU.S.

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