A lawyer for a convicted money launderer urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday to find that a warrant is required for law enforcement agents to search cellphones at U.S. borders.
Looking through a person’s cellphone is a highly intrusive, and, therefore, a federal investigator needed a warrant to search Chinwendu Alisigwe’s phone at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Assistant Federal Defender Colleen Cassidy of New York told the court.