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- Do police need a warrant to search my phone?United States
Riley v. California: what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is “get a warrant”, with case-specific exceptions. Quoted.
- Thumb unlocks: what the Ninth and D.C. Circuits heldUnited States
What the Ninth Circuit (Payne) and D.C. Circuit (Brown) held about compelled thumb unlocks of a phone, and the limit the Ninth Circuit put on its own ruling.
- CBP and your phone at the U.S. borderUnited States
What CBP’s device-search directive requires you to present, when it needs suspicion, and what happens if officers can’t get in. Quoted, not guessed.
- Getting a seized phone back, and how long copies are keptUnited States
How to ask a court for your phone back under Rule 41(g), what a warrant lets police do with a copy afterward, and one honest gap in what this site found.
- Compelled passcodes: state supreme court rulings, by stateUnited States
What the Utah, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts and Oregon supreme courts said about passcodes, unlocking and self-incrimination.
- Border phone searches: what the federal circuits have heldUnited States
Manual vs forensic phone searches at the U.S. border, circuit by circuit: what the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Circuits held and left open.
- ICE device searches, the 100-mile zone and airport screeningUnited States
ICE’s 2009 border-search directive, what 8 U.S.C. §1357(a)(3) and 8 C.F.R. §287.1 say about distance, Supreme Court stop and search rulings, and what TSA says.