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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

We don’t need hyperbole here …. If authorities have a legal reason to search and you interfere with that, destruction of evidence is a crime. Delete all you want …. Right up until authorities claim the legal reason to search. Usually that takes a warrant: investigators must convince a judge there is a good reason

This also includes “when entering the country”. It always has. There’s nothing new here. There are so many things the current administration does to violate rights and due process, but this isn’t one of them.

The slippery slope here is “or within 100 miles”, but that wasn’t a factor here either

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 16 points 4 weeks ago

This also includes “when entering the country”. It always has. There’s nothing new here. There are so many things the current administration does to violate rights and due process, but this isn’t one of them.

Have to disagree with that one. Simply entering a country is not justification for searching someones phone. I don't care what the law says. People have a right to privacy.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I’m not saying I agree with it, just that it’s always been so

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

There are so many things the current administration does to violate rights and due process, but this isn’t one of them.

You literally said they are not violating rights by doing this.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 4 weeks ago

He’s saying that right was taken away by George W Bush.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

Governments cannot take rights away. They can only infringe upon them. They are rights. Not privileges.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 4 points 4 weeks ago

Then clearly you’re talking about deontological rights and they’re talking about legal rights and both wasting your breath

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

That should have been obvious by the fact that I said I don't care about the laws.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

That's how it should be. But that's not what the law says.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

I don’t care what the law says. People have a right to privacy.

[-] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

as far as I understand, they were not there to serve a warrant. he was crossing a border and the feds are claiming that the 4th amendment doesn't apply because he hadn't yet crossed into America.

border patrol was essentially using a loophole to preemptively collect potential evidence (they'll figure out what to charge him with after they see his phone contents). he's a political activist against a cop city, they were obviously trying to do him dirty.

they were not serving a search warrant. they were abusing what should be an illegal search at the border in order to silence those who speak out against govt overreach.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 weeks ago

If he wasnt in the US how can the US claim he violated a US law?

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

The US claims jurisdiction over its citizens wherever they are.

Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, because it means you can be prosecuted in the US for stuff like going to Thailand and sexually abusing children there.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 weeks ago

So the law applies, but protection under the law does not.

Isn't all law essentially derived from powers granted by the constitution?

If the powers granted by it to enforce a law are applicable when not within the US then then it very reasonably ought to apply to any and all amendments.

But, reason is on the extinction list with the magafascists. (And all LEO)

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Are we reading the same article?

The incident took place at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport in January 2025

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

So the important takeaway is to delete your phone before customs. Presumably you have an encrypted backup you can restore without too much effort

[-] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Finally a sensible reply. Quite a few NAZI bootlickers here. They’re the first the sign up it seems.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Good to know thanks

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