The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.
They have to “develop probable cause” to do more than check your ID but we’ve seen how easy that is over the years. At the end of the day they will make up the probable cause if they need to. But even more importantly this is the authority they’re using to have Border Patrol conduct military style patrols in our cities.
Not us, SCOTUS said it.
CBP; ACLU Maine; ACLU
They have to “develop probable cause” to do more than check your ID but we’ve seen how easy that is over the years. At the end of the day they will make up the probable cause if they need to. But even more importantly this is the authority they’re using to have Border Patrol conduct military style patrols in our cities.