This is absolutely accurate. Border Patrol and Customs can confiscate almost anything and search it, including phones, computers and any other electronic devices without a warrant. The 4th amendment does not apply at the border. If you have anything sensitive on your electronic devices, DON’T travel outside the country with them.
For many of us, the cellular phone we have is the ONLY phone we have. For the DHS to seize these devices when we are traveling is to cripple our means of communications completely.
Since when do our RIGHTS end because DHS says they don't exist? Since when does a statute trump a Constitutional RIGHT? What part of the 4th Amendment do you fail to grasp?
Does the power of the DHS extend across the border when I leave?
Obviously, the DHS has no jurisdictional authority on the other side of the border.
How then does their power to exceed the Constitution work on THIS side of the border???? Is there a magical buffer of non-Constitutionality authority near the border? How wide is this buffer zone? Is it one-tenth of an inch wide, one inch, one foot, one mile, what? Apparently it extends all the way to Los Angeles Air Port. Does it extend all the way to, say, Denver? How about Kansas City?
The “travel naked” comment is key ..... I never use the cloud, factory reset my gadgets before travel, emergency points of contact in my phonebook only. Consider using stacked VPN’s, PGP encrypted email, TOR browser, Tails which is a “live” OS. Also a virtual OS such as peppermint from lumbuntu. All this on a encrypted thumb drive like a ironkey.
These are tools that leave no footprint / data history etc on your gadgets or the thumb drive...... Sort of a digital protection suite for road warriors.
Just what I do...