What are your rights if border authorities ask for your phone?

Amid the recent news of a U.S. citizen being asked to turn over his phone to authorities at a border crossing, Sophia Cope of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has tips on digital civil liberties.

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Amir Makled is a Michigan-based attorney and a U.S. citizen who was recently detained by federal agents while returning home from a family vacation. They asked him to hand over his cell phone. He refused, but he did eventually agree to let them see his contacts. When we spoke to Makled earlier this week, he told us that he

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