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Customs and Border Protection Privacy Concerns

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Digital Borders: The Power of Immigration Officials’ Authority to Search Your Devices

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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has the authority to search electronic devices — including phones, laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices — of anyone entering the United States, including US citizens and...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

U.S. Customs Opens Mass Searches of Data on Confiscated Traveler Smartphones, Computers

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I am an advocate of providing law enforcement officers the newest technology to do their jobs well. If there is a recording of an event, the police should be able to use it. If a stingray can capture cell phone...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

I won the lottery. Does anyone have to know?

Three intriguing new cases related to privacy, legal and personal, just cropped up: Lottery winner won’t identify herself Can you blame the lottery winner? She held the winning ticket for a $560 million jackpot, signed her...more

K2 Integrity

Border Searches: Risks to Electronic Devices and Your Data

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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

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International Travelers: You Have No Rights

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Not many Americans realize, or think about the fact, that when they enter or exit the United States they essentially do not have any right to privacy. What this means, as a practical matter, is that Customs and Border...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2018 #2

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Health Care Organizations Saw an 89% Increase in Ransomware in 2017 - Our experience last year is consistent with the conclusion of a new report issued by Cryptonite in its 2017 Health Care Cyber Research Report—that the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Customs and Border Patrol Issue New Rules for Searching Devices at Borders

We previously reported that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have been stopping U.S. citizens at the borders of the United States and demanding passwords for access to mobile devices. According to CBP, 19,051 mobile...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Searches of Devices at the U.S. Border

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Although longstanding policy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorizes searches of electronic devices in the possession of travelers arriving in the United States, recent reports of such searches...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #74 – What to Do About Customs and Border Patrol

There has been lots of talk about the ripple effects of the Trump travel ban. But here’s a new twist I hadn’t heard before—U.S. Customs and Border Control (CBP) agents are detaining U.S. citizens and requiring them to unlock...more

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