Attention all journalists: US border patrol agents can search your phones – Columbia Journalism Review

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Attention all journalists: US border patrol agents can search your phones

Award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Ed Ou, who has covered the Middle East for over a decade, has worked under threat as a journalist in almost too many countries to count. Authorities in Turkey, Egypt, Somalia, Djibouti, and Bahrain have arrested or detained him at some point in his career. But he always assumed working in […]

via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/first_person/ed_ou_border_standing_rock.php

After they took his phones and SIM cards into another room, Ou says they started going through his checked bags. Then they read and photocopied his personal journals against his wishes.