Re:Border Search of Electronic Devices – CBP Directive [pdf]
by pas on Saturday January 06, 2018 @08:18PM
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> The police cannot illegally search you and use that evidence as a means to find additional evidence, and then present that evidence in court as if it was untainted.
Isn't the problem that illegal (dragnet) searches still happen?
Police only need one warrant or one instance of probable cause to "deploy Stingray" in a city block, and then flag suspicious things, and then use the legal search conducted by the border patrol, to check what was suspicious.
Of course, the practicality of flagging a lot of people for minor things (that somehow are or become a crime when crossing a border) and then keeping those records somehow shared with the CBP in secret for all these years is simply not there.
Isn't the problem that illegal (dragnet) searches still happen?
Police only need one warrant or one instance of probable cause to "deploy Stingray" in a city block, and then flag suspicious things, and then use the legal search conducted by the border patrol, to check what was suspicious.
Of course, the practicality of flagging a lot of people for minor things (that somehow are or become a crime when crossing a border) and then keeping those records somehow shared with the CBP in secret for all these years is simply not there.