Archived New guidelines: Border agents need reasonable suspicion for 'advanced' device searches (thehill.com)
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Archived New guidelines: Border agents need reasonable suspicion for 'advanced' device searches (thehill.com)
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'Under the updated policy, border agents are allowed to detain an electronic device or copies of information on the device to perform a more thorough search. '
'CBP conducted device searches for the most travelers, 3,133, in August 2017, the only month that the count broke 3,000. '
'These searches are those in which agents connect external equipment to a device in order to analyze or copy its contents. '
'Border agents are still allowed to manually search through devices — which could involve sifting through photos, browsing histories or messages — “with or without suspicion,” in what are called basic searches. '
'New data released by CPB shows that the agency conducted more than 30,000 border searches of electronic devices belonging to those exiting and entering the country in fiscal 2017, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. '
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