Border agents conducted more than 33,000 device searches in 2018. Court records show they were allowed to share what they found with other government agencies.
Police are required to get a warrant to search through your devices, but the Department of Homeland Security’s border patrol agents haven’t been following those rules, documents show.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed evidence in court on Tuesday detailing testimony and documents on how the DHS has allowed its agents to search through people’s phones and laptops without a warrant.
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