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The TRUTH About America Searching Your Phone at the Border... PROPAGANDA FREE
CTV warned Canadians that U.S. border officials can search their cellphones without reasonable suspicion. That's true, but once you look at the actual U.S. policy, the court case behind the story and CBP's own statistics, the picture becomes very different.
More than 420 million travellers were processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in FY2024. Electronic devices searched: 47,047, less than 0.01%.
And that's only the beginning.
In this episode of Tap The Maple, Bakes digs into the actual U.S. cellphone search policy, the difference between basic and advanced searches, what border…
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