What if a CBP officer "asks" for the key or password to your home (say it's a keypad entry), and then calls the local cops and asks them to search the home. Would this be any more or less legal than the email thing?
Why would searching a home on US soil be any different than searching a server on US soil?
Originally Posted by
Deeg
It is the same situation as making consensually monitored phone calls. If the CBP officers had asked the Thai woman to call the US citizen and allow the call to be recorded (without the US citizen's knowledge or consent) it would have been perfectly legal, without any court order. The reasoning is the same: when having a phone conversation, you take the risk that the other party is sharing the conversation with others. If that other party chooses to share the conversation with the government, you have no recourse.
What about the fact that certain states make it illegal to record a call without informing both parties? Do such laws not apply to CBP officers?