Customs and Border Protection, Fourth Amendment, International Travel

Crossing Borders with Electronics: Know Your Rights and Risks

Womble Bond Dickinson on 4/21/2025

With increasing digitalization of our lives and businesses, privacy concerns from border searches of phones, laptops and tables are a growing concern for professionals, executives, and frequent international travelers. U.S....more

If You Don’t Need It, Don’t Pack It: Border Searches of Mobile Devices

Dickinson Wright on 3/21/2018

Currently there are a number of pending cases concerning the issue of whether Border searches can include a search of someone’s cellphone. On March 15, 2018, a divided 11th Circuit Court, upheld the conviction of a Florida...more

Border Searches: Risks to Electronic Devices and Your Data

K2 Integrity on 2/5/2018

U.S. citizens who travel internationally, especially corporate executives and high-net-worth individuals, must consider and navigate data security risks when crossing a border—whether into the United States or another...more

On the Border: Lawmakers Seek to End Warrantless Searches of Electronic Devices by Border Authorities

Snell & Wilmer on 4/8/2017

The controversial practice of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents randomly demanding that Americans turn over passwords to their mobile devices so they can be searched at the border and at ports of entry may be...more

Privacy Tip #80 – Continued Controversy Over Mobile Device Searches by CBP

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/30/2017

Many people were shocked and outraged over the story I relayed about a U.S. citizen, in fact, a NASA scientist, who, after returning from racing solar cars abroad was required by Custom and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to hand...more

Immigration Fact or Fiction for the U.S. Employer: CBP Searching Electronic Devices – A New Thing?

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 3/20/2017

There has been heightened interest and concern regarding the potential for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to search laptops and smart phones at the port of entry, due to the mention of such searches in one of...more

Crossing the Border with Electronics - Helpful Tips and Pitfalls to Avoid

Dickinson Wright on 3/20/2017

International travelers have been reporting that cell phones, computers, and other communication devices are being seized by Officers of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“USCBP”) branch of the U.S. Department of...more

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