Does U.S. Customs have your phone’s messages, photos?
Customs and Border Protection officials say they’re saving data from around 10,000 detained electronic devices a year.
By Brenda RuizDoes U.S. Customs have your phone’s messages, photos?
Customs and Border Protection officials say they’re saving data from around 10,000 detained electronic devices a year.
By Brenda Ruiz
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Officials say the data they gather at U.S. Customs from phones — data that includes contacts, messages and photos — is saved for 15 years in a database, calling into question the department’s ability to access it at will and without a warrant.
Reset digs into how this is happening and what you can do to protect your data.
GUEST: Tatum Hunter, Washington Post technology writer based in San Francisco