Sentences with phrase «border agents searching»

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Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016.

Typical, recent examples of his artworks thoughtfully list medium and / or displayed interior contents, as if listed by border security agents: «custom made perspex 1U format box, server PSU & switch, server case fans, AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence, by Daniel Crevier (book), PDLC switchable privacy film, cables, generic unpainted architectural 1:100 scale model figures, dust, sebum [an oily secretion of the sebaceous glands], digital timers, travel power adapter...»

Under CBP Directive No. 3340 - 049, a CBP agent must first consult with the CBP Associate / Assistant Chief Counsel before searching a device suspected of containing propriety legal information, but it does not further outline the procedures border agents must follow.

Now that the Ninth Circuit has given border patrol agents the go - ahead to conduct suspicionless searches of travelers» laptops or other digital devices when they enter the country, lawyers need to figure out ways to safeguard confidential and privileged information from an agent's scrutiny.

«We recognize that security at the nation's borders is of fundamental importance, and we acknowledge that lawyers traveling across the border with laptops and other electronic devices containing confidential client documents and other information could become subject to routine searches by CBP and [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents,» Klein wrote.

But Granick adds that encryption is an imperfect solution, because border patrol agents may attempt to force travelers to enter their passwords so they can continue their search.

Border agents are authorized to perform an «advanced search» by connecting a phone to a hard drive to copy its contents for analysis when the need arises.

Border agents can search laptops without -LSB-...]

And while regular folks, even journalists and high powered business execs, may be all but defenseless when a CBP agent demands to search their electronic devices at the border, thanks to the ABA, lawyers have a new tool to at least defend themselves: bureaucratic inconvenience and paperwork.

The reason I think these are related is that they are the two most obvious ways that occurred to me one could cause border agents problems with such a search.