CBP Agents Held This U.S. Citizen for Hours Until He Agreed To Let Them Search His Electronic Devices

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I am guessing the same protections don’t apply to Greencard holders or visitors? Earlier this year a French scientist was stopped from entering the US over something innocuous on his phone.

I had a Greencard I abandoned back in 2014. I was worried about this whole Panopticon from 2011 and I felt even pre-Trump that with the way it was and is being normalized, I might be able to pushback better in my home country since I am not very good with organizing with people outside a kind of left that has only started being more vocal and visible (to me anyway) lately.

Back in those days it was just the ACLU..which struck me at least as a bit of a hoary dinosaur.

Nowadays I hope more young and genuinely progressive lawyers like Lina Khan and Alec Karakatsanis may start sprouting up in democracies the world over to challenge these robber barons of Google, Facebook, Microsoft as well as small creepy companies that exist in the woodwork.

There was a group that caught my eye locally a few years ago. Unfortunately they had such a generic name I can’t remember it. It looked like a good group but it had a very unmemorable name. I must check them out…