| ▲ | petcat 7 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Customs has always been able to search everything without a warrant or suspicion when crossing the border. I guess this is saying that they can search the digital contents of physical devices/media as well? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | otterley 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not everything. From the case itself: "To be sure, nonroutine searches, which are “more invasive searches, like strip searches, require reasonable suspicion.” Id. But we have held that “the label ‘non-routine’ should generally be reserved for intrusive border searches of the person (such as body-cavity searches or strip searches), not belongings.” United States v. Levy, 803 F.3d 120, 123 n.3 (2d Cir. 2015) (emphasis added)." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | wrs 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
It says they can manually search them. According to this, the ruling explicitly doesn’t say if they can digitally search them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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