searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Edward Biebel <edward () biebel net>
Date: Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 3:35 PM
Subject: searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing
fivefold in just one year
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>


For IP if you think appropriate:

Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that
searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold
in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in
2016.

According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year.
Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in
all of 2015.

"That's shocking," said Mary Ellen Callahan, former chief privacy
officer at the Department of Homeland Security. She wrote the rules
and restrictions on how CBP should conduct electronic searches back in
2009. "That [increase] was clearly a conscious strategy, that's not
happenstance."

"This really puts at risk both the security and liberty of the
American people," said Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon. "Law abiding
Americans are being caught up in this digital dragnet."

"This is just going to grow and grow and grow," said Senator Wyden.
"There's tremendous potential for abuse here."

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/traveling-while-brown-u-s-border-agents-can-search-your-n732746



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