The court ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool.

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post.The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the…

  • quick_snail
    23·
    3 months ago

    Always turn your phone off before crossing borders. Use a strong passphrase, never biometrics

    • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip
      7·
      3 months ago

      From my experience, most phones don’t allow a biometric unlock after a restart. So biometric should be fine as long as you follow your first rule.