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the issue of so-called digitalstrip searches is coming up quite a bit when it comes to airtravel, especially now that we have situations where tsaagents will ask you for your smart phone, or thepassword to the technology that you are traveling with. in fact, according to data fromthe department of homeland security, searches of mobilephones from border agents grew from fewer than 5000 in2015, to 25,000 in 2016. the government says that the2016 number is a little bit of

an anomaly, but they did notexpress what they meant by that, why it is an anomaly andwhy we should not expected to keep increasing. in addition to going to peoplesmart phones in person, u.s. customs and borderprotection can ã± and us immigration and customsenforcement can confiscate devices for further forensicexamination. in this case, agents can makefull copies of all the data on the phone, which can beshared with other agencies.

so what they will do is theywill essentially hold someone hostage, in a way. let's say you are trying toenter back into the united states and you are like that andthey are like, we need to see your phone, give us yourpassword. if you refuse and you are not aus citizen, they can just deny you entry, period. if you are a us citizen, theycan put you through this insane and lengthy processwhere, i don't know what

they do, but a few hours laterthey will let you go. but if you are a us citizen,they cannot deny you entry to the country. this is a disaster on so manydifferent fronts. 1st let's talk about citizensand green card holders. this is the mostunconstitutional thing you can ever imagine. it says in the constitutionthat you cannot have an unreasonable c sensors ã± searchand seizure without a warrant.

they don't have warrants. is it a seizure of your privateinformation to check your phone, and look at your emails at the ã± and at the pictures that youhave? i can imagine a moreunreasonable search without a warrant. that is literallyunconstitutional. hell no, not even close. now they do it, and nobody evencomplains.

wears all the republicansscreaming about the constitution? or the democrats? this is unreal, they can't dothis to citizens. i'm going to be travelingoutside the country, i'm going to be coming back in, so i havegot to lock my phone and there's no way i let them lockit. and if you are a citizen, knowyour rights. and yes, then they willillegally detain you.

they don't call it illegal,but it is illegal, it is unconstitutional. god knows how long they willdetain you, and then they can keep your phone, accordingto this, for weeks. so, look, they are at some pointgoing to do this to the wrong hombre, who is going to be aharvard law professor, and then we are going to go to courtand settle this, because this is as unconstitutional asit gets. the whole fucking nsa spying isunconstitutional, the whole

thing we are living in right nowis unconstitutional. repealing habeas corpus isunconstitutional. we are living in a police state,and a surveillance state, the whole thing isunconstitutional. i'm going out of the country ina few weeks and i'm afraid to come back with my phone. this happened to my nephew, hewent to canada, and they were all in a room, and theywere messing with the hispanics way more than anyoneelse.

of course, of course. the nsa is looking into all ofour stuff, but we don't know it, so it hasn't touchedpeople yet. so ã± or when the governmentlooked into the phone sex conversations of our troops iniraq, while pretending to spy on terrorists, people thought, wellthat's not me. but everybody who has a phonegoes, whoa i've got nothing on my phone that i don't wantthe government to see. you see what i'm saying?

that's why this could be amuch larger issue where we finally draw the line. and if you're not a citizen,good night irene. if you don't let them violateyour privacy, that's it, they pull your visa, they can sendyou back, there goes your whole trip, all expenses, and you arenot allowed to enter the us, unless we get to violateeverything that is sacred to you. and what isn't in our phones?

why would anyone want to travelto the united states if they are not a citizen at thispoint? like, for vacation. i would not want to travel toyou ã± to the united states, knowing that these are thedevonian searches that they are ã± the draconian and searchesthat they are doing. the guardian did a great storyon this, and i love the guardian, giving tips totravelers who are entering the unites states, but we should nothave to constantly do this,

delete everything on our phone,or store everything in the cloud or on dropbox and not haveanything on our phone because there is a possibility that somecrazy tsa agent is going to look through our data, or store ourdata on a database that they have. think about that, if you are abusiness owner, or working for silicon valley, there maybe trade secrets that you don't want anyone to knowabout, and they are going to download all of that stuff?

that's insane. if anything, we should be askingcongress to protect big business by not allowing this to happen,if big business is all that they care about and they don't carewith constitutional rights as people ã± of people. what specifically are theylooking for? i don't know half the stuff thatis on my laptop anymore, but i definitely don't have a folderthat is labeled like, terrorism, or anything like that.

so what did they find in a fewhours that would be so incriminating? they claim they are looking fordumb ass terrorists who just tweeted, hand landing inmilwaukee, can't wait to bomb something. but you are right, if you aregoing to do that, you are the person who was least likelyto even have that phone or laptop on you, or to have thatmaterial. and so it is a very ineffectiveprogram that does the maximum

amount of privacy invasion, soit's a lose lose. this is how they justify it,they say they are critical to the --- commercial crimes, copyright,trademark, expert control violation. yeah, it's a great way to helpfind out those, you know what else's? illegal searches. you can just pull people over,go through their shit, go

into their houses. you'll find a lot of evidence ona lot of crimes. that's not the country we aresupposed to be living in. that's how they are justifyingit, because they are finding crimes. by the way, it goes both ways. child porn. you better all agree, becausewhat if i found child porn? but like jimmy said, you couldjust bust into people's

houses, what if i found childborn? but that's unconstitutional, youneed a warrant to do that. you know what? i'm very worried about tsaagents having child porn on their phones, so i want to gothrough every one of their phones before i cross backthrough the border. how is this any different fromjust going into someone's house without a warrant, and justgoing through their shit? it's not different.

these are our homes. honestly, we probably have moreabout us here than we have in our actual homes. you need a warrant, you need awarrant, there is to be probable cause. you need to prove or at leastshow that there is some reason to believe that this person isdoing something wrong, and you have to go through their shit. i miss the days when they usedto just feel you up.

ã± in fact, i would rather than , feel then go through my phone,that is more invasive to me. they will do both, don't worry. like i said, you might havepictures on there that you don't want people to see, and they candownload that stuff. you think they are going toabuse that? you think the first thing theyare going to look for ã± you think the first thing they arenot going to look for is ã± you think the first thing thatwould look for is not going

to be naked pictures of youor your wife or your girlfriend or whatever? in iraq, the first thing we didwith wiretapping was listened to phone sex of our own soldiers,the first thing. because if guys run it, ofcourse that's what we are going to do. the slope goes both ways. we are looking for childpornography, well how do i know that the person getting thephone isn't a pedophile?

and then he said to go into myphone and look at pictures of my kids and download that? no way, no way. you are sure that guys who areinto that kind of stuff arch going to go take a job todo that? no, that's why we call it aconstitution, that's what we have in america, because youhave to get a warrant and probable cause to go througheverything we have. they are doing it right now,there's dozens, hundreds of

examples, little on the one thatthe guardian talks about, which is a nasa engineer, coming backfrom a trip to chile. absolutely outrageous, andclearly unconstitutional.

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