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Searching your phone is a humans rights violation? I mean, I get the hyperbole, but I'd say more like a privacy issue. But hey, just add the US to the long li
by refurb 4y ago
Searching your phone is a humans rights violation? I mean, I get the hyperbole, but I'd say more like a privacy issue.
But hey, just add the US to the long list of countries like Canada, UK, Australia, etc, etc, etc.
Maybe we can come up with a positive list of countries that won't search your phone at the border?
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoPrivacy is a human right. United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948, Article 12: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.” https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/56/what-privacy https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/56/what-privacy
- refurb 4y agoRight but clearly it’s more complex than “human right” since you and your belonging can be searched at the border for every single country. Clearly searching your phone is overstepping it, but it’s not like there is some absolute right to privacy when crossing borders.
- bigbacaloa 4y agoPrivacy is not a right under US law. The US constitution makes no mention of it and the interpretive framework that creates such a right was recently overthrown in the antiRoe ruling.
- refurb 4y agoYou seem confused. Privacy is not an implicit right under the Constitution under the new ruling of RvW, but that doesn't mean it's not a right under US law. There are plenty of privacy laws in the US.
- hellojesus 4y agoAlso the 9th ammendment.
- trasz 4y agoNobody is searching your phone on UK border. It’s pretty much unheard of in this part of the world.
- refurb 4y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2013/7/15/4524208/uk-border-police-seize-download-mobile-phone-data-under-anti-terror-law https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/15/4524208/uk-border-police-... Police in the UK have the power to seize mobile devices from any traveler entering the country, and can retain their personal data for as long as they see fit, according to a report from the Telegraph.
- trasz 4y agoThey might have the power to, but they don't exercise it[1]. Also, this is about phone as in physical device; it doesn't grant them the right to access the (encrypted) data, does it? 1. Fun fact: the Queen has the power to execute anyone at will.
- refurb 4y agoA simple google search proves they have used it. https://cpj.org/2022/03/british-journalist-martin-banks-detained-and-questioned-by-uk-border-police-equipment-confiscated/amp/ https://cpj.org/2022/03/british-journalist-martin-banks-deta...
- trasz 4y agoNope - they were just temporarily confiscated, not "searched".