• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    border agents repeatedly demanded access to his phone and told him they did not need a warrant.

    The US is lawless, so the Constitution does not matter, but without a warrant they had no legal claim whatsoever to the phone or its contents.

    • lad@programming.dev
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      That seems to be the current line of defense — no legal claims means the owner can delete what they want to delete