'The fear is real': How to protect your devices and digital life from U.S. border agents

"I don't bring my work laptop. I'm a lawyer with sensitive client communications, including stuff involving lawsuits against the very agency that would be searching me." — ACLU's Nathan Freed Wessler

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Jul 22, 2025

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Customs and Border Protection agent checks identification at the San Luis Port of Entry in Arizona; Rebekah Zemansky / shutterstock.com

This is Part Two of our three-part post on how U.S. citizens and green-card holders can protect themselves at the border, in which we interviewed deputy director of ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Nathan …

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