US Customs phone, laptop border searches increased substantially in 2017

Back in August 2009, the US Customs and Border Patrol released a Directive over its border searches of electronic devices. Today the CBP released a new Directive that supersedes the one it released in 2009, explaining that the new one “enhances transparency, accountability and oversight of electronic device border searches” it performs. The CBP also said that it performed 30,200 …