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Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Stop Warrantless Cell Phone Searches at the Border

(ANTIMEDIA) In the waning years of the Obama administration, Customs and Border Protection agents had a bad habit of conducting warrantless searches of cellphones and laptops. Documents released to the American Civil Liberties Union under Freedom of Information Act requests revealed that Border Patrol agents searched over 6,500 people from October 2008 to June 2010.

New Normal: Border Agents Cell Phone Searches Reach Unprecedented Levels

TSA officer Robert Howard signals an airline passenger forward at a security check-point at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 (AP/Elaine Thompson)
U.S. authorities at airports have been asking U.S. citizens for cell phone passwords in order to search them, according to a recent investigation by NBC News which included one incident in which a couple was asked two separate times for their passwords and the second time the Muslim partner was held in a chokehold when he questioned the officer’s demand.

Don’t Kill Yourself – or get Someone Killed – Playing Pokemon Go

Until a couple of days ago, I’d never heard of Pokemon Go. Now I can’t get away from the smartphone game, released July 6, but I haven’t played it, and I’m still trying to figure out exactly what it is. I feel old admitting it, but I had to look it up online for an explanation. Though if you have kids, you probably know more than I do.
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Parents Outraged As Cellphone Towers Erected In School Yards

While driving through the streets of many cities in America, an eyesore is revealed that flies in the face of logic, mainstream medical literature, and law. Make no mistake that each cell tower you see represents an utter lack of concern for generations of children, families, and communities as a whole. What many in the medical community warned of for years is now coming to the surface in scientific studies as cell phone tower radiation rains on the public.