*FEDERAL COURT RULES SUSPICIONLESS SEARCHES OF TRAVELERS’ PHONES AND LAPTOPS UNCONSTITUTIONAL* / //GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE REASONABLE SUSPICION OF DIGITAL CONTRABAND BEFORE SEARCHING ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT THE U.S. BORDER/ NOVEMBER 12, 2019 BOSTON — In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court in Boston today ruled that the government’s suspicionless searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Alasaad v. McAleenan, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and ACLU of Massachusetts, on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without individualized suspicion at U.S. ports of entry. […] Continua qui: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-search...