The court ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool.

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post.The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the…

  • Kurtismayfield@lemmy.zip
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    3 天前

    Correct. Remember Mr. Hope and change? Well he was more to the right than Colin Powell. He would have kneecaps Social security if there wasn’t a group of Tea party that couldn’t be seen working with him.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      2 天前

      Remember Mr. Hope and change? Well he was more to the right than Colin Powell.

      Some of us are old enough to remember the Obama years (and Powell). This shit is just an outright lie.

      He would have kneecaps Social security if there wasn’t a group of Tea party that couldn’t be seen working with him.

      Outright lie.

      Obama was a milquetoast, liberal disappointment. But how about getting your message across without blatant, absurd lies? Have you tried that yet?

      Are you interested in educating people about Obama’s deficiencies, and how to avoid them? In showing people that he was a disappointing, capitalist, center-right president?

      Or are you just interested in making stupid shit up instead? Because the latter tactic unquestionably undermines completely any valid argument you may have had.