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The Fourth Amendment still applies at the border, despite the feds' insistence that it doesn't.
A judge in the Eastern District of New York ruled that cellphone searches are a "nonroutine" search, more akin to a strip search than scanning a suitcase or passing a metal detector.
The ruling adds to a stream of cases restricting the government's ability to search travelers' electronics.
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