re: American Citizens: U.S. Border Agents Can Search Your Cellphone

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It is clear that this is a classic case of technology outrunning legislative / constitutional law.

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Eh, not really. Part of the probable cause FOR Customs and Borders to search electronic devices are the technology import/export laws. Some of our common everyday stuff like phones, PC's, tablets, and the SOFTWARE on them are specifically forbidden from being exported outside the USA.

Heck, the old WebTV from MicroSoft was banned from export, may even still be. It was limited to pretty much Continental USA only. Some of the US Territories and stuff in the Pacific could not legally import/export those crappy units. Kinda ironic since they were made by Sony overseas.

So, Customs and Borders does have the "right" to search for export banned software/hardware.

They just had the WikiLeaks posting of highly classified CIA info. That was illegal data/software exported from this nation. They missed searching someone's technology obviously.

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BUT HERE IS THE RUB. The libs decrying this searching of cell phones were fricking silent for 8 years while their party ran the country. But three months of Trump and they are screaming about cell phone searches. Show me how many of these searches occurred under the previous administration and then we can talk.

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Agree. The quoted story states 4900 searches of cell phones, etc. in January. POTUS Trump was sworn in on Jan. 20. The story never mentions how many in December 2016. It did state the numbers were increasing throughout 2016 though.