The court ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool.

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post.The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the…

  • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    By making it a shithole for vulnerable people and then not doing anything to actually make it better?

    • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.com
      1·
      2 days ago

      You’re thinking if your average Democrat. The Democrat party is right-wing. We’re talking actual leftists. The type of people who want the government to work for the people. If MAGA can take over a political party, we can too.