{"id":10828,"date":"2022-09-23T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10828"},"modified":"2022-09-23T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T17:10:10","slug":"border-authorities-seize-and-store-phone-data-for-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10828","title":{"rendered":"Border Authorities Seize and Store Phone Data for 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has long maintained the fairy tale that the borders are somehow a civilrights-free zone and the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents can do whatever they like without having to worry that pesky 4<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment or other procedural safeguards. There\u2019s no support for this idea in the constitution and as far as I can see the government made it up out of whole cloth. Sadly, the courts have acquiesced so that\u2019s the world we live in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> has a disturbing article on how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/us-border-forces-traveler-data-15-years-085106938.html\">CPB agents can and do copy user data and store it in a database for 15 years<\/a>. Once in the database, the data is available to DHS agents to rummage through without securing a warrant or even having to record their reasons for accessing the data.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, Sen. Ron Wyden is on the case but, sadly, he is, also as usual, a lone voice. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Wyden%20letter%20to%20CBP%20on%20border%20searches%20of%20devices.pdf\">letter to the commissioner of CBP<\/a>, Wyden lays out the type of data seized and the questionable legal basis for taking and storing it. He asks the commissioner to develop a plan for dealing with this problem and to let him know what it is no later than the end of October. I\u2014and I\u2019m sure Wyden\u2014am not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has long maintained the fairy tale that the borders are somehow a civilrights-free zone and the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents can do whatever they like without having to worry that pesky 4th Amendment or other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-10828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10829,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10828\/revisions\/10829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}