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by thescribe 3082 days ago
How is this different than shutting down your phone at the border crossing?
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It is dramatically different -- so different, in fact, that I suspect you haven't even attempted to think about it. Maybe willfully so.

You are a person entitled to rights. A company is not a person. Border searches are warrantless, arbitrary, and lack any oversight whatsoever. The company was searched by a court order signed by a judge for suspicion of a specific crime. In every way possible, these situations are entirely different.