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  1. November 12, 2019

    Feds Need Reasonable Suspicion To Search Phones At Border

    A reasonable suspicion that an international traveler is carrying some sort of contraband on a smartphone or laptop is required before border officials can search the electronic devices, a Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling the ACLU hailed as a major victory for privacy rights.

  2. July 18, 2019

    Feds Want 'Breathtaking' ACLU Border Search Case Nixed

    An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer said requiring warrants for cellphone searches at the border would do little to impede the work of immigration officials while a government attorney said the "breathtaking" ACLU ask would undermine the nation's security, in dueling arguments before a federal judge Thursday.

  3. June 07, 2019

    Feds Say Power To Search Phones At Border Well Supported

    Requiring warrants for searching cellphones and electronics at the border would push the security of the United States into "uncharted waters" and has no support in either law or fact, the federal government has argued in a bid to win a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.

  4. April 30, 2019

    Border Phone Searches 'Circumvent' Constitution, ACLU Says

    A group of advocates suing the federal government over warrantless cellphone searches at the Southern U.S. border asked a Massachusetts federal judge Tuesday for a win in the case, claiming the government "cannot use the border to circumvent the Constitution."

  5. January 02, 2019

    Feds Request Pause In Border Search Case Due To Shutdown

    The U.S. government asked a Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday to freeze discovery in a case challenging border agents' warrantless searches of cellphones and other devices, saying its lawyers have been unable to perform any work since funding to the U.S. Department of Justice lapsed on Dec. 21.

  6. May 10, 2018

    Gov't Can't Toss Suit Over Phone Searches At Border

    The government can't shake a suit over U.S. border patrol agents searching travelers' electronic devices without a warrant after a Massachusetts federal court ruled the travelers challenging the policy have plausible claims that their rights to privacy and free speech were curtailed.

  7. April 23, 2018

    Feds Defend Searching Phones At Border Without Warrants

    Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice defended its border-search practices — including those involving cellphones — on Monday at a Boston court hearing where the federal government clashed with the American Civil Liberties Union over a centuries-old question of what personal belongings law enforcement officers can inspect without a warrant at the nation's borders.

  8. February 05, 2018

    Free Speech Advocates Join Challenge To Border Searches

    Free speech advocates urged a Massachusetts federal court Friday to reject immigration authorities' attempt to toss a suit challenging warrantless search and seizure of electronic devices at the border, arguing that such devices store vast amounts of private information that constitutes protected speech.

  9. September 13, 2017

    Advocates Sue Over Warrantless Phone Searches At Border

    The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation accused border patrol officers in Massachusetts federal court Wednesday of conducting warrantless searches of smartphones and laptops at U.S. ports of entry in violation of constitutional privacy and free speech rights.

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