Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border
July 27th, 2024Via: Reason:
The Fourth Amendment still applies at the border, despite the feds’ insistence that it doesn’t.
For years, courts have ruled that the government has the right to conduct routine, warrantless searches for contraband at the border. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has taken advantage of that loophole in the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures to force travelers to hand over data from their phones and laptops.
But on Wednesday, Judge Nina Morrison in the Eastern District of New York ruled that cellphone searches are a “nonroutine” search, more akin to a strip search than scanning a suitcase or passing a traveler through a metal detector.
Although the interests of stopping contraband are “undoubtedly served when the government searches the luggage or pockets of a person crossing the border carrying objects that can only be introduced to this country by being physically moved across its borders, the extent to which those interests are served when the government searches data stored on a person’s cell phone is far less clear,” the judge declared.
Morrison noted that “reviewing the information in a person’s cell phone is the best approximation government officials have for mindreading,” so searching through cellphone data has an even heavier privacy impact than rummaging through physical possessions. Therefore, the court ruled, a cellphone search at the border requires both probable cause and a warrant. Morrison did not distinguish between scanning a phone’s contents with special software and manually flipping through it.
And in a victory for journalists, the judge specifically acknowledged the First Amendment implications of cellphone searches too. She cited reporting by The Intercept and VICE about CPB searching journalists’ cellphones “based on these journalists’ ongoing coverage of politically sensitive issues” and warned that those phone searches could put confidential sources at risk.
FRANCE: “MASSIVE ATTACK” ON FAST TRAIN NETWORK
July 26th, 2024Update: ‘Sabotage’ Hits French Trains Hours Before Olympics
Via: AFP:
Arson attacks scrambled France’s high-speed rail network for tens of thousands of passengers on Friday, after what officials called premeditated acts of “sabotage” just hours before the Paris Olympics opened.
Friday’s attacks were launched as the French capital was under heavy security ahead of the Games opening ceremony, with 300,000 spectators and an audience of VIPs expected at the event.
The fires that affected France’s Atlantic, northern and eastern lines led to cancellations and delays at a time of particularly heavy traffic for summer holiday travel.
Around 800,000 passengers are expected to be affected over the weekend as the damage is heavy and labour-intensive to repair.
“Early this morning, coordinated and prepared acts of sabotage were perpetrated against installations of SNCF,” the national rail operator, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said.
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Via: AFP:
#UPDATE Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France's high-speed rail network has been hit by "malicious acts" including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.
"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse… pic.twitter.com/Fj9NqiRA6b
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) July 26, 2024
Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France’s high-speed rail network has been hit by “malicious acts” including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.
“This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network,” SNCF told @AFP
, adding that many routes will have to be cancelled and the situation would last “at least all weekend while repairs are conducted”
More: France’s High-Speed Rail Network Hit by Arson Attacks
More Audio Analysis of Trump Shooting
July 25th, 2024Via: Peak Prosperity:
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Newsom Issues Executive Order For California Cities To Remove Homeless Encampments After Supreme Court Ruling
July 25th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
After years of encouraging rampant crime and degeneracy among the homeless population, and just in time for an election talking point, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Thursday for the removal of homeless encampments across the state.
What Happened to Donald Trump’s Right Ear on July 13th?
July 25th, 2024
Loading ...Dr. Peter Hotez: Use Homeland Security and NATO to Fight Anti-Vaccine Aggression
July 24th, 2024Dr. Peter Hotez about using Homeland Security and NATO to fight anti-vaccine aggression, anti-science aggression: "I've said to the Biden administration: "The health sector can't solve this on its own, we're going to have to bring in Homeland Security, Commerce Department,… pic.twitter.com/Lhqu4jgz9P
— Camus (@newstart_2024) July 24, 2024
Cheatle Was with Cheney on 9/11
July 24th, 2024[RG911Team] The plot thickens…
So, this isn’t the first time former Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle has been at the center of a national security crisis.
What does she know about 9/11 that we don’t? pic.twitter.com/QNnl1YzkMU
— Richard Gage, AIA, Architect (@RichardGage_911) July 25, 2024
“I Shouldn’t Joke Around, But: Can We Get the UFOs Going Again?”
July 24th, 2024I swear, I didn’t know that excerpts from Lue Elizondo’s book would be coming out days after I joked about this.
"Four deceased nonhuman bodies were in fact recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash."
Hal Puthoff told Lue Elizondo alien bodies were recovered at Roswell. From the preview of the upcoming Lue Elizondo book "Imminent". ?? pic.twitter.com/yTMIaecmjw
— Sky Fire News! (@SkyFireNews) July 24, 2024
Lue Elizondo says spooky orb UFOs "the size of a basketball" were flying around the INSIDE of his house for years.
??Clear & ?green orbs are OK.
?Blue orbs are bad orbs.
Elizondo's done 4,376 media interviews since 2017 but never once mentioned "UFOS HAUNT MY HOUSE!" pic.twitter.com/3me0AyaDiM
— Steven Greenstreet ? (@MiddleOfMayhem) July 24, 2024
New Air Force Drone Can Fly for Over Three Days Without Refueling
July 24th, 2024Via: Defense One:
The U.S. Air Force is getting closer to realizing its vision of low-cost surveillance drones with an autonomous drone that can fly for more than three straight days. And it’s already flying missions in the Middle East.
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The glider-like ULTRA drone can stay in the air for 80 hours without refueling or landing, and can carry payloads weighing up to 400 pounds. ULTRA costs just a fraction of the price of a legacy surveillance aircraft, DZYNE says, such as the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, which costs roughly $30 million apiece.
