Homeland Security officials have started asking people to unlock their phones and computers and log into their social media accounts at routine border crossings, and Congress could make that practice permanent.
We need to stop this threat to our basic privacy rights before handing over all of your most personal information becomes as commonplace as removing your shoes to fly.
Let’s draw a line -- sign the urgent petition to stop Social Media Strip Searches! Here's the text: "Demanding warrantless access to our phones and computers at the border is an invasion of privacy and weakens our security. Ban this practice immediately."
Source: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-social-media-strip-searches/?link_id=0&can_id=7edcc706bd9f685233b1fe73f77a4fff&source=email-new-rules-at-the-airport-3&email_referrer=new-rules-at-the-airport-3&email_subject=new-rules-at-the-airport
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