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Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Post by _flux »

alphabettsy wrote: post #42
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They can still get your texts and contacts and call history from your car though. In many cars it syncs Source? If so, that's a privacy boon for CarPlay and Android Auto.

It’s actually the native integrations that do this. Android Auto and CarPlay basically act as a display for your phone and little data leaves your device. Connect via Bluetooth to many vehicles and that data syncs to the car’s infotainment.

Whenever I pair my Android phone to e.g. a headset, it asks if I want to share my contacts. And, I suppose, also text messages, and I just checked there's that option with the paired vehicle (and it was unchecked).

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Post by plutaniano »

q1w2 wrote: post #100
Someone1234 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US also asks for a list of social media accounts, which is creepy.

I've crossed the border hundreds of times and no one has ever asked me for my social media accounts.

It’s a question on the DS-160, IIRC.

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Post by maeil »

ranger_danger wrote: post #58
beaglesss wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think that. I was strip searched When that came up with nothing they appeared in front of a judge claiming drug baggies were sticking out of my ass, then I was imprisoned, printed, and loaded up in a prisoner van and dragged to several hospitals while they tried to convince doctors to X-ray or invasively search me. It sounds so insane, and gross, people usually don't believe it. I was sent the medical bills when…

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There is no reason to assume so.

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

plutaniano wrote: post #102
q1w2 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've crossed the border hundreds of times and no one has ever asked me for my social media accounts.

It’s a question on the DS-160, IIRC.

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Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Post by dheera »

Havoc wrote: post #86
dheera wrote: post #62

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Use the most obscure fork of Android possible, learn the most obscure language in Africa and set your UI to that language, ...

That sounds like a good recipe for getting pulled for secondary screening

Screen for what?

"Why do you use this OS"

"I like the OS"

"Why do you use this language"

"I like the language"

"Why did you buy GME shares"

"I like the stock"

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Post by callalex »

chuankl wrote: post #104

Is it still the case that "at the border" actually means "anywhere within 100 miles of the US border"? https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

Or within 100 miles of an airport, which means pretty much everywhere is the border. It’s insane.

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Post by kotaKat »

dheera wrote: post #62
arnonejoe wrote: post #18

I’m curious, if your phone is locked, were they ever able to demand that you unlock it so they could conduct a search?

Use the most obscure fork of Android possible, learn the most obscure language in Africa and set your UI to that language, ...

Aaaaand with the bootloader unlocked, they'll just grab the Cellebrite and/or call up Cellebrite Professional Services for remote unlock assistance.

https://cellebrite.com/en/advanced-services/

The biggest thing is to set your device up on arrival to be powered OFF. Most of Cellebrite (and other security vendors) solutions rely on the phone having been unlocked once since first poweron (or "AFU").

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Post by FireBeyond »

southernplaces7 wrote: post #91
lionkor wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not OP but almost all of Europe comes to mind.

A continent where laws capable of sending you to prison for freely expressing certain opinions is your counter example to a lack of certain advanced individual rights in the U.S.

A country where the highest court in the land can rule that if you are convicted and sentenced to death, but are factually innocent, that the courts have no obligation to reverse your conviction, and that if you want off death row, you should appeal to the governor. And if the governor says no, well, sucks to be you, you're getting executed anyway.
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