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Your Phone Isn’t Safe at the Border. Warrantless Phone Searches Hit Record High.
You’ve landed in the United States, jet-lagged and maybe still trying to remember if you left your charger in the seatback pocket. But before you even hit the bathrooms at JFK, a smiling agent from Customs and Border Protection may have one small request: your phone. Not to help you find a ride, of course. They want to scroll through it.
And scroll they do. Between April and June 2025, CBP agents rummaged through the digital drawers of 14,899 travelers, setting a new record in the long-running TSA Theater production of Security First, Rights Later.
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