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.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250412154222/https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5359447/what-are-your-rights-if-border-authorities-ask-for-your-phone

Related, “Attorney representing a student protester detained by federal immigration agents”

When a man in Michigan was heading home on Sunday from a family vacation in the Caribbean, he was stopped in the Detroit Airport. Federal officers, border agents, detained him, interrogated him and pressured him to hand over his cellphone. The man is a U.S. citizen. He’s a civil rights and criminal defense attorney, and among his clients is an activist who has been charged in connection to a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Michigan.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250410185452/https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5357455

  • @[email protected]
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    33 months ago

    I mean…it’s more a punishment for you than me…but get the gloves, I guess. I did eat Taco Bell earlier. Fair warning.

    • nkat2112
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      13 months ago

      Also, to be fair, that’s an appropriate username given your initial response.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        He was an amazing physicist and a…complicated…person. But He deserves to be honored with my dick-joke username.