Department revises estimated number of searches at the border final year,reducing obvious surge as authorities face suit alleging ‘suspicionless searches’The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it misreported its internal count of travelers’ electronic devices searched at the border, meaning the surge in the number of recorded searches was not as dramatic as it initially reported. The CPB has revised its estimate of its 2016 searches of travelers’ devices including cellphones, or tablets,and laptops downward from about 25000 to about 19000. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com