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Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone (bbc.com)

An American woman who had her phone seized by border agents as she returned home to the United States is suing the country's border protection agency. Bob the Super Hamste shares a report: Rejhane Lazoja was stopped at Newark airport, New Jersey, after returning from a trip to Switzerland in February. Her iPhone was seized by agents after she refused to unlock it for them. The lawsuit alleges that border agents took a copy of the data on her smartphone and failed to say whether it had been deleted. According to legal documents, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) kept the phone for more than 120 days before returning it to Ms Lazoja, who is a Muslim woman and wears a hijab. [...] "Neither was there probable cause, nor a warrant [to search the phone]. Therefore, the search and seizure of Ms Lazoja's property violated her rights under the Fourth Amendment," the filing says.

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  1. but these are border guards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    and before you get past them you have not crossed the border, so you have no rights, including property rights. The border guards are free to steal from you as they see fit.

    This is America, not a utopia, geez

  2. humanitarian crisis by micahraleigh · · Score: -1, Troll

    Donald Trump's administration has been the biggest humanitarian crisis on recorded history!

    When are people going to wake up and see OUR PRESIDENT is (sometimes) eating MORE big Macs than other people at the White House. This person does not understand shared prosperity or the message he is sending to children (and orphans!!).

    And now illegal immigrants are LOSING their constitutional access to Facebook before our eyes!

    And look at his appearance. That hair is just an impeachable offense all by itself! We need to replace all the deadbeats on the supreme court bench who are enabling this president to oppress us and women with this stuff he is eating that has not been approved by the experts, and done some things people who read Rolling Stone magazine don't want!

    What about those NASA people? Are they still outreaching to Muslims? Is he calling out the bitter Democrats in Pennsylvania the way Obama did for clinging to their guns and their religion? I DOUBT IT !!

    Guys, the only hope we have now is for the DNC to override the democrat primary voters and nominate another truly awesome candidate like Jeremiah Wright or Elizabeth Warren.

    Let's get out there and send our money to the DNC and celebrate all those wonderful FBI agents who were fired from their awesome efforts at stopping democracy so we could get our person in there!

  3. Re:They don't need cause to search you by JackieBrown · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are pretty partisan if you don't see this as a witch hunt. Even Star had more restrictions and limited scope than Muller.

    We gone from collusion (couldn't prove), to obstruction (pretty easy to make a case on obstruction against anyone), to paying a porn star to keep an affair secret.