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[quote=Anonymous]People need to remember that CBP has more rights to your devices than traditional law enforcement.

CBP can force you to unlock your phone so they can look through it. The courts have ruled that US citizens cannot be compelled to provide their passcodes or unlock their devices for traditional law enforcement officers.

If you are an American citizen and you refuse to unlock your device at the border, CBP can confiscate it. That's within their legal purview. They will they take the device and break into it using software. I know this because the company I work for makes and sells the software and CBP is one of our customers. CBP does not need a warrant to access or confiscate your devices. They don't even need reasonable suspicion.

If you must travel outside of the US for work or leisure, I would strongly advise you to buy a secondary phone on eBay and leave your daily use phone at home. I never travel outside of the US with my personal, daily use cell. I have an older model iPhone with my most needed contacts in it along with Signal and a few other needed apps. I set up my usernames in those apps as John Smith Travel with a travel email such as John.Smith.Travel@gmail.com. That way my daily use data doesn't transfer to the travel phone. I've also found that it helps to "tag" your laptop with a barcode sticker and Property of Company label. I've not had my laptop searched since doing that. But again, if asked, you must unlock the laptop and let them look through it and if you don't, they will confiscate it. I have a bare minimum laptop I use when traveling outside of the US. It's 100% work materials only and no personal materials. [/quote]

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