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-requiredOpen linkView original on discuss.online
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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."
"The 2027 Protect The Children Act states that all US citizens must have an ID on file with Meta Inc."
No thank you, I'd rather go to jail.
Deathcamp*