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Your car has many locks, yet CBP can basically disassemble it if they want to. The judge must mean intrusive in the sense of a violation of your person (or some
by nickff 6y ago
Your car has many locks, yet CBP can basically disassemble it if they want to. The judge must mean intrusive in the sense of a violation of your person (or something to that effect).
- naebother 6y ago> The judge must mean intrusive in the sense of a violation of your person (or something to that effect). My car does not store private digital information. Well, the infotainment/GPS system might have a record of where I've been, but if CBP wants to collect that every time I cross the border that seems excessive. My phone/laptop has a lot more sensitive information than that and looking at that most certainly is "a violation of your person". You might not be physically violating me, but it's still a violation as codified in various other laws on transmuting/accessing digital information without consent. The bottom line is, if you want complete access to my digital life get a warrant from one of the many rubber-stamp judges at your disposal. If you can't even be bothered to that much, I don't think you actually need my information but just want an intimidation tool.
- nickff 6y agoI don't like the current state of the law, but it makes sense. The law isn't what we'd like it to be, it's a self-supporting artifice constructed by legislators, lawyers, and judges (many of whom wear multiple hats through their careers).