This is great news. Privacy laws around the internet and smartphones basically don’t exist. It’s been “legal” for law enforcement to demand we open everything on our phones, and let them download the entire contents, without warrant or suspicion, until now.
Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing:
Now, a federal court in Boston has found in favor of the travelers, affirming that CBP cannot conduct searches of border-crossers' devices without particularized suspicion of illegal contraband.
The judgment has the potential to stem the rising floodtide of warrantless border searches of devices -- up 400% in just three years.