Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO

Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by pseudalopex on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:42PM (#14318469)

Grounds to search someone for contraband isn't grounds to read their correspondence. US citizens didn't re-enter the country through Ellis Island.

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Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by Retric on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:54PM (#14318557)

Sure, but as I said details matter.

Suppose police kill 1 person per month across the US. That's would not be a huge red flag for me, but if police killed 10,000 people per month across the US that's grounds for a revolution. The ground between A and B can be vast, so saying X happens on it's own is less important than the context.

All I am saying is that a 3x annual increase in X can be a bad sign even if the old and new rates are justified because the trend on it's own is concerning.

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Re:Feds searching passenger cell phones at SFO by pseudalopex on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:29PM (#14412286)

That argument is very different from the one I responded to.

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