Border Device Searches Unconstitutional US District Court

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 22:10:26 PST 2019


https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/alasaad_opinion_summary_judgment.pdf

In positive news... yet unfortunately perhaps only that district.
48 pages of fun... US citizens, fake court denies them data
expungement and injunction, defendants spin arguments, etc.

BOSTON — In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court in
Boston today ruled that the government’s suspicionless searches of
international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other
U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. The ruling came in a
lawsuit, Alasaad v. McAleenan, filed by the American Civil Liberties
Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and ACLU of Massachusetts, on
behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched
without individualized suspicion at U.S. ports of entry.


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