A federal appeals court says border agents may search the phone in your pocket without suspicion. How much of your private life should government be allowed to inspect?
It's a very interesting post. It accommodates competing interests: privacy, and the legitimate prerogative of government.
One curiosity that occurred to me, especially regarding things like banking-related records, is that some things require passwords. Does any part of the government have a legitimate theory as to whether mobile phone holders are required to reveal passwords?
I consider my phone as safe, file cabinet, journal, and personal calendar. Therefore, I see me
filing actions against any agency that can't articulate a reasonable cause to search my phone without a warrant.
I am not going to give my pass code to them. Nor am I going to unlock my phone for them. I don't have anything illegal nor would be any of the agency's business on my phone.
They don't decide how invasive, destroying, nor hijacking of my pursuit of happiness, privacy and liberties are going to be in their presence.
It's a very interesting post. It accommodates competing interests: privacy, and the legitimate prerogative of government.
One curiosity that occurred to me, especially regarding things like banking-related records, is that some things require passwords. Does any part of the government have a legitimate theory as to whether mobile phone holders are required to reveal passwords?
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in 2014 (in Riley v California) that mobile phone searches require a search warrant. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/573/373/
I consider my phone as safe, file cabinet, journal, and personal calendar. Therefore, I see me
filing actions against any agency that can't articulate a reasonable cause to search my phone without a warrant.
I am not going to give my pass code to them. Nor am I going to unlock my phone for them. I don't have anything illegal nor would be any of the agency's business on my phone.
They don't decide how invasive, destroying, nor hijacking of my pursuit of happiness, privacy and liberties are going to be in their presence.
As folks have limits, so should the government.
I'm moving out of country I'm buying a new phone and not activating until I pass into the plane having old sent
An intelligent approach might be to preserve records outside your phone, then discard it.
Of course one might purchase an inexpensive device for travel, then simply discard it before gefahrt auf Der Vereinigsten Staaten von Amerikkka.