Grievances over lost privacy since 2011 add personal dimension to debate over rights, security and technology
Mon, Dec 25, 2017 - 5:50 AM
Midway through fiscal year 2017, Customs and Border Protection in the US was on pace to search 30,000 travellers' electronics - more than tripling the annual number by that agency since 2015, when it searched 8,503 people's devices.
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Washington
THEY spoke of being humiliated and shaken. They described being "made to feel like a criminal". And they maintained that their rights had been violated.
Grievances over lost privacy run through a trove of roughly 250 complaints by people...
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