Federal Court rules that border agents can confiscate your phone and search your photos, your texts, your banking apps, your DMs and scroll through everything on your phone
The court rules that a manual search of a travelerβs phone at the border is a βroutineβ border search, similar to opening a suitcase. This means no warrant, no probable cause and no reasonable suspicion is required for this search to happen
- If you refuse your phone could be confiscated for weeks
- Non-citizens can be denied entry if they refuse to present a device in a searchable condition
Liberals are losing their mind over this but they are looking for very specific things
- Child sexual abuse material is the most common
- Terrorism
- Drug, human, firearms and cash smuggling
- Visa fraud and admissibility
- Stolen proprietary data
- IP / counterfeit / commercial crimes tied to the border
- Identity and purpose of travel when documents or answers look off