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Your Phone Isn’t Safe at the Border. Warrantless Phone Searches Hit Record High.

Citizen or not, your texts are fair game at the terminal. Here's how to protect yourself.

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You’ve landed in the United States, jet-lagged and maybe still trying to remember if you left your charger in the seatback pocket.

But before you even hit the bathrooms at JFK, a smiling agent from Customs and Border Protection may have one small request: your phone. Not to help you find a ride, of course. They want to scroll through it.

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