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Border Cops Can Search Your Phone Whenever They Want, If You're Within 100 Miles of the Border Original

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By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Verified
| Reason Verified
Coming back from a far-flung vacation? Traveling abroad on a business trip? Just happen to find yourself within 100 miles of a U.S. border? I regret to inform you that U.S. Customs and Border Control (CBP) agents can search your phone, laptop, GPS system, smartwatch, or other electronic devices for virtually no reason. No particular suspicion of criminal activity is needed. No probable cause. No warrant.
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New Homeland Security Task Forces Target Immigrants Over Sex Work

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By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Verified
| Inkl
Today, I want to focus on one case that didn't make it into that piece. It's the case that turned me on to the shams that are these new Homeland Security task forces, and it involves an old preoccupation of federal law enforcement: Asian immigrant–owned massage parlors. "Four Chinese nationals indicted on charges of human trafficking, immigration violations, and money laundering," the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania announced in January.
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U.K. Might Force Social Platforms To Give Government-Backed Media Special Status Original

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By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Verified
| Reason Verified
While I was chowing down on fresh seafood and collecting beach rocks with my kids last week, busybodies on both sides of the Atlantic were scheming up ways to give the government more control over online speech and information. So for today's newsletter, I want to cover a few of those developments—plus one uncharacteristically good omen for tech users' civil liberties. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
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