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The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post. The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo , a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief , alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of wheth

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Published: 22 July 2026
Source: EFF Deeplinks
Category: Field notes
Topics: Military & security · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 23 July 2026

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ethics.ai (22 July 2026), “The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required,” evidence record 12708, https://ethics.ai/record/12708 (originally published by EFF Deeplinks).

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