Wyden to Introduce Bill to Prohibit Warrantless Phone Searches at Border

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I need to read the text. US citizens already do not need to unlock devices to be permitted entry (although of course the agents will lie and say that you do), so hopefully this is for non-citizens that visit.

US CBP has already ruined one vacation of ours (my partner is Canadian) due to her unwillingness to unlock her phone at a US border crossing (this was months before Trump, and she was only singled out because she was traveling with me).

Here's hoping for some common sense.

Is she blocked from future US visits for 10 years?

I heard rumors that this will happen, if you refuse and they send you back.

We haven't tried yet.

Magnificent. This is not a partisan issue. This is a privacy issue.

Don't worry. It will be made partisan because of some perceived threat of terrorism, national security, leaks, etc. that supposedly merits policies of questionable constitutionality.

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