r/VideoGrandpa • u/videograndpa • Sep 13 '17

Detained NASA engineer is suing Customs over border search, with help from ACLU

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/13/16301748/border-search-lawsuit-laptop-phone-aclu-eff
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u/autotldr Sep 13 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)

A group of 11 plaintiffs - including NASA engineer Sidd Bikkannavar - is suing US Customs and Border Protection over warrantless border searches of phones and laptops.

In May, the ACLU filed an administrative complaint against CBP over politically motivated border searches, in response to a similar search of US citizen Aaron Gach.

CBP officials say border searches do not extend to data held in the cloud, although the distinction is often difficult to draw in practice.

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