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Lawsuits challenge border digital information searches
While courts typically maintain that Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches do not apply at the U.S. border because the country must fight crime and terrorism, a couple of lawsuits are challenging that notion based on searching for information on digital devices. "What we are asking is for a court to rule that the government must have a good reason to believe that someone has engaged in wrongdoing before it is allowed to go through their electronic devices," said Catherine Crump, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing plaintiffs in two lawsuits.

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