by Ned S. Levi | May 8, 2023
Hidden cameras have been found in vacation rentals, invading guests’ privacy. Find and deactivate them or leave the rental. A group of women who booked an Airbnb on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast are warning guests about vacation rental homes after they...
by Ned S. Levi | Mar 11, 2019
In 2017, more than 30,000 cell phones were searched at our borders — a 60 percent increase from 2016. Since 9/11, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been searching laptops, digital cameras, cellphones and other electronic devices of visitors and U.S....
by Ned S. Levi | Aug 31, 2009
Last summer I wrote about the Customs and Border Patrol’s (CBP) program to randomly search and seize laptops, digital cameras, cellphones and other electronic devices at the border, without warrants, reasonable suspicion or probable cause. A year later, CBP agents are...
by Ned S. Levi | Oct 15, 2008
You’ve probably heard about the Travelers’ Privacy Protection Act of 2008, a proposed new law that would prevent customs agents from confiscating your laptop computer at the border. But what does the law actually say? In a post earlier this month, my colleague...
by Ned S. Levi | Jul 3, 2008
The Fourth Amendment may prohibit “unreasonable searches and seizures” and require “probable cause,” but not at the border, according to the 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals, which has ruled that Customs and Border Protection agents could conduct random, warrantless...
