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> The U.S. actually has unusually strong protections against the police in this regard and in others.

Uh, what protections exactly? The article explains in detail how nobody has any protection against phone searches at the border, including lawyers with privileged information.

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Yeah I did a bad job of explaining myself. I was thinking of border searches as a subset of the protections of privacy (in the U.S., operationalized as protections against unreasonable search and seizure). Overall people tell the police to fuck off all the time when they come asking, and you have strong protections when you're doing that. The police rely heavily on people not knowing their rights.

Agreed. The right to complain I suppose. Like blowing raspberries up wind.

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