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Cell Phones And The Border Search Exception: Circuits Split Over The Line Between Sovereignty And Privacy, Gina R. Bohannon Jul 2019

Cell Phones And The Border Search Exception: Circuits Split Over The Line Between Sovereignty And Privacy, Gina R. Bohannon

Maryland Law Review

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The Ironic Privacy Act, Margaret Hu Jan 2019

The Ironic Privacy Act, Margaret Hu

Scholarly Articles

This Article contends that the Privacy Act of 1974, a law intended to engender trust in government records, can be implemented in a way that inverts its intent. Specifically, pursuant to the Privacy Act's reporting requirements, in September 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notified the public that record systems would be modified to encompass the collection of social media data. The notification justified the collection of social media data as a part of national security screening and immigration vetting procedures. However, the collection will encompass social media data on both citizens and noncitizens, and was not explicitly …