All my electronic devices were searched by Canadian Border Services when I crossed the border into Canada four years ago.
This has nothing to do with who is leading our country. The only thing new here is that it's easy to point the finger at one person for everything you don't like; it's been in place for awhile now.
> The so-called border search exemption means that the 4th Amendment’s requirement of probable cause does not apply to customs officials, and the practice of “detaining” cellphones began under the George W. Bush administration. But cellphone searches by the Department of Homeland Security have exploded in 2017 — DHS officials searched more phones in February of this year than in all of 2015. (Four members of Congress introduced a bill this week that would require agents to obtain a warrant before searching a U.S. citizen’s electronic device.)
There could be a good reason, but it feels manipulative.
President Trump’s new security regime wastes yet more of our time and our taxpayer money and shows outright scorn for the spirit of the 4th Amendment."
The article is making it look like this is due to Trump, but if there was an ongoing increase for 2 years under Obama that would be manipulative.
It's incredibly frustrating. I hate the experience every time I go through it. But I understand why it's necessary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Who is claiming any measure will reduce risk to zero?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp....
Mocking reality is not an argument, even if it can create a popular TV show.
No one. But some claim that the current risk must decrease, while it is much smaller than almost everything else.
How many terrorist attacks would there be if no one was trying to stop them?
BTW, NSA never prevented any terrorist attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance#Purposes
Upd: Also, if the risk is already small, why we need even more privacy invasions?
> NSA never prevented any terrorist attack:
> The director of the National Security Administration today told Congress that more than 50 potential terrorist attacks have been thwarted by two controversial programs tracking more than a billion phone calls and vast swaths of Internet data each day.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nsa-director-50-potential-ter...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/25/nsa-re...
> Unfortunately the tools available to terrorists continue to change and so must the measures used to fight them.
From what I know, the current problem is not the lack of information, but how well it is targeted. For example, we knew about the terrorists in France in 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2017_%C3%8Ele-de-France_...
Also, many think that the war on terror made more harm to the humanity then what we would have otherwise. At least such invasive war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_War_on_Terror
What's stopping them, if not our security services?
What terrorist organization wanted to attack us in the eighties?
What organization wanted to attack us in the nineties, other than the failed WTC bombing?
If that had succeeded, history might be very different. Success breeds success and the second WTC attacks on 9/11 inspired other terrorists.
Hezbollah (usually as "Islamic Jihad"), the Italian Red Brigades, the Red Army Faction, the Abu Nidal Organization, and the Japanese Red Army are among the foreign groups that not merely wanted to, but actually succeeded in carrying out attacks targeting Americans in the 1980s
The Armed Resistance Unit, The Order, and the Jewish Defense League are among the domestic groups doing the same.
> What organization wanted to attack us in the nineties, other than the failed WTC bombing?
This little group called al-Qaeda that you may have heard of carried out several attacks targeting the US in the 1990s, including the WTC bombing which killed 6 and injured 1,042.
Saudi Hezbollah also conducted a major attack targeting Americans, and there were several by Islamists for which no organization took credit or has been ascribed blame. This, of course, doesn't cover everyone who wanted to attack Americans, just those who actually carried out attacks that actually did.
There were also notable domestic terrorist attacks in the 1990s.
The embassy bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, the WTC bomb attack, and the Oklahoma City bombing were all notable terror attacks on the US in the 1990s.
Is there? How do you know this?