NO WARRANTLESS SEARCHES OF PHONES: COURT

BOSTON: A federal court in Boston has ruled that warrantless US government searches of the phones and laptops of international travelers at airports and other US ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. Tuesday’s ruling in US District Court came in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without individualized suspicion at all American ports of entry. The ACLU described the searches as “fishing expeditions”.