As travelers carry more of their personal and professional lives on smartphones and laptops, border searches of electronic devices have become a growing concern worldwide. Recent warnings from U.S.

U.S. law has long provided a border search exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant or probable cause requirement, allowing federal agents to search people, and their electronic devices, at border ...

After two of its executives had their laptops and other electronic devices seized and searched at U.S. airports in May, BAE Systems PLC -- the U.K.-based defense and aerospace giant -- found itself ...

Travelers coming to the United States should know that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can search an increasing number of electronic devices under a new directive (3340-049B) that was ...

The Fourth Amendment still applies at the border, despite the feds' insistence that it doesn't. For years, courts have ruled that the government has the right to conduct routine, warrantless searches ...