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Comment on Fourth Circuit: Border Agents Can Search Your Phone by Hand, No Suspicion Needed

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If you have something incriminating on your phone then wipe it before you cross the border and restore it afterwards.

You may have “incriminating” stuff that you are unaware of:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/02/denied-entry-united-states...

something incriminating

How would one even define that in 2026?

Believe it or not, that's also illegal.

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