{
  "id": 12708,
  "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fourth-circuit-says-border-agents-can-search-your-phone-hand-no-suspicion-required",
  "title": "The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Sophia Cope",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "military-security,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T22:30:31.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-23T05:10:49.458Z",
  "source_slug": "eff",
  "source_name": "EFF Deeplinks",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.eff.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12708",
  "original_url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fourth-circuit-says-border-agents-can-search-your-phone-hand-no-suspicion-required",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}