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No Warrant Needed: Border Agents in NY, CT, and VT Can Now Search Your Phone
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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2026
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Wow. Yeah... We all need shitty travel phones with very little on them now. That's fucking gross.
The second circuit used the right argument but somehow came to the wrong conclusion. The 4th carves out no special exemption, meaning you need a warrant.
Conservatives are pathological liars by nature. They re-define words to suit their immediate needs. Never trust a conservative. Never.
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Could it be because the technology was still 250 fucking years away?
That was my question too...
Or don't travel with a phone at all. Take a digital camera and use that for pictures.
Anything else, just buy a used phone at your destination and load all your accounts on that, then delete and reset your phone and sell it before you leave
You realize these powers extend within 100 miles of any border?
Doesn't it also include international airports and waterways?
I don't know, but if the 100 mile rule applies to international airports and waterways it would probably change that 2/3 of the population to something like 9/10.
Yes it does
Including waterways.
And airports
That's like most of the populated areas
They'll search that too! Take an analog camera instead. At least that way you get the film developed for free ;).
If by "developed" you mean "opened and exposed to the light" then yes
use one that requires a dark room.
Or don't travel there.
I unfortunately live in this cesspool of a country