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John Shipman joins the News Hub with a look at today's market action, including three stocks to watch. Photo: Getty Images.
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9th Circuit Appeals Court: 4th Amendment Applies At The Border; Also: Password Protected Files Shouldn't Arouse Suspicion
from the well-that's-a-surprise deptHere's a surprise ruling. For many years we've written about how troubling it is that Homeland Security agents are able to search the contents of electronic devices, such as computers and phones at the border, without any reason. The 4th Amendment only allows reasonable searches, usually with a warrant. But the general argument has long been that, when you're at the border, you're not in the country and the 4th Amendment doesn't apply. This rule has been stretched at times, including the ability to take your computer and devices into the country and search it there, while still considering it a "border search," for which the lower standards apply. Just about a month ago, we noted that Homeland Security saw no reason to change this policy.
Well, now they might have to.
In a somewhat surprising 9th Circuit ruling (en banc, or in front of the entire set of judges), the court ruled that the 4th Amendment does apply at the border, that agents do need to recognize there's an expectation of privacy, and cannot do a search without reason. Furthermore, they noted that merely encrypting a file with a password is not enough to trigger suspicion. This is a huge ruling in favor of privacy rights.
The ruling is pretty careful to strike the right balance on the issues. It notes that a cursory review at the border is reasonable:
Officer Alvarado turned on the devices and opened and viewed image files while the Cottermans waited to enter the country. It was, in principle, akin to the search in Seljan, where we concluded that a suspicionless cursory scan of a package in international transit was not unreasonable.But going deeper raises more questions. Looking stuff over, no problem. Performing a forensic analysis? That goes too far and triggers the 4th Amendment. They note that the location of the search is meaningless to this analysis (the actual search happened 170 miles inside the country after the laptop was sent by border agents to somewhere else for analysis). So it's still a border search, but that border search requires a 4th Amendment analysis, according to the court.
It is the comprehensive and intrusive nature of a forensic examination—not the location of the examination—that is the key factor triggering the requirement of reasonable suspicion here....For years, we've repeated two key arguments for why border searches of laptops and other devices should be illegal.
Notwithstanding a traveler's diminished expectation of privacy at the border, the search is still measured against the Fourth Amendment's reasonableness requirement, which considers the nature and scope of the search. Significantly, the Supreme Court has recognized that the "dignity and privacy interests of the person being searched" at the border will on occasion demand "some level of suspicion in the case of highly intrusive searches of the person." Flores-Montano, 541 U.S. at 152. Likewise, the Court has explained that "some searches of property are so destructive," "particularly offensive," or overly intrusive in the manner in which they are carried out as to require particularized suspicion. Id. at 152, 154 n.2, 155–56; Montoya de Hernandez, 473 U.S. at 541. The Court has never defined the precise dimensions of a reasonable border search, instead pointing to the necessity of a case-by-case analysis....
- You mostly store everything on your laptop. So, unlike a suitcase that you're bringing with you, it's the opposite. You might specifically choose what to exclude, but you don't really choose what to include.
- The reason you bring the contents on your laptop over the border is because you're bringing your laptop over the border. If you wanted the content of your laptop to go over the border you'd just send it using the internet. There are no "border guards" on the internet itself, so content flows mostly freely across international boundaries. Thus if anyone wants to get certain content into a country via the internet, they're not doing it by entering that country through border control.
The amount of private information carried by international travelers was traditionally circumscribed by the size of the traveler's luggage or automobile. That is no longer the case. Electronic devices are capable of storing warehouses full of information. The average 400-gigabyte laptop hard drive can store over 200 million pages—the equivalent of five floors of a typical academic library.... Even a car full of packed suitcases with sensitive documents cannot hold a candle to the sheer, and ever-increasing, capacity of digital storage.Huh. That last paragraph sounds a lot like my argument above. Very cool to see a court actually recognize this basic point. Considering it had been ignored for so long, I'd almost given up hope.
The nature of the contents of electronic devices differs from that of luggage as well. Laptop computers, iPads and the like are simultaneously offices and personal diaries. They contain the most intimate details of our lives: financial records, confidential business documents, medical records and private emails. This type of material implicates the Fourth Amendment's specific guarantee of the people's right to be secure in their "papers.".... The express listing of papers "reflects the Founders' deep concern with safeguarding the privacy of thoughts and ideas—what we might call freedom of conscience—from invasion by the government."... These records are expected to be kept private and this expectation is "one that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable.'"
Electronic devices often retain sensitive and confidential information far beyond the perceived point of erasure, notably in the form of browsing histories and records of deleted files. This quality makes it impractical, if not impossible, for individuals to make meaningful decisions regarding what digital content to expose to the scrutiny that accompanies international travel. A person's digital life ought not be hijacked simply by crossing a border. When packing traditional luggage, one is accustomed to deciding what papers to take and what to leave behind. When carrying a laptop, tablet or other device, however, removing files unnecessary to an impending trip is an impractical solution given the volume and often intermingled nature of the files. It is also a time-consuming task that may not even effectively erase the files.
In this case, they also noted that part of the forensic analysis of the computer involved restoring deleted files, and note:
It is as if a search of a person's suitcase could reveal not only what the bag contained on the current trip, but everything it had ever carried.The court is equally worried about the fact that the device is often just a portal to cloud based services, and how a search of a device might lead to access to that data, even if it's been snug and secure "in the cloud" the whole time, rather than crossing the border:
With the ubiquity of cloud computing, the government's reach into private data becomes even more problematic.12 In the "cloud," a user's data, including the same kind of highly sensitive data one would have in "papers" at home, is held on remote servers rather than on the device itself. The digital device is a conduit to retrieving information from the cloud, akin to the key to a safe deposit box. Notably, although the virtual "safe deposit box" does not itself cross the border, it may appear as a seamless part of the digital device when presented at the border. With access to the cloud through forensic examination, a traveler's cache is just a click away from the government.Of course, this doesn't mean that no searches can ever take place. Instead, they just need to be "reasonable" and live up to the standards of the 4th Amendment. In fact, in this very case they still say that there was "reasonable suspicion to conduct the initial search, and that appears like it may be a legitimate claim (the guy had a previous conviction for child molestation, which the agents believed -- incorrectly, but they believed it at the time -- was for child porn). But for everyone else, where there is no reasonable suspicion, our 4th Amendment protections just got stronger (at least if you're entering the country in an area covered by the 9th Circuit (covering California, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho and Montana).
There's one other important part of the ruling as well. In discussing the "reasonable suspicion" the court agrees it was there because of the prior conviction, as well as the fact that guy was travelling from Mexico which is "a country associated with sex tourism." However, the government also argued that password protected files gave them reasonable suspicion, and thankfully the court slaps them down:
To these factors, the government adds another—the existence of password-protected files on Cotterman's computer. We are reluctant to place much weight on this factor because it is commonplace for business travelers, casual computer users, students and others to password protect their files. Law enforcement "cannot rely solely on factors that would apply to many law-abiding citizens," ... and password protection is ubiquitous. National standards require that users of mobile electronic devices password protect their files.... Computer users are routinely advised—and in some cases, required by employers—to protect their files when traveling overseas....There are some dissenting opinions, basically suggesting that this upturns more settled law, but the majority ruling makes a strong case for why the Supreme Court has actually not really directly answered this question before, but has tiptoed carefully around it. Still, it seems likely that there will be an appeal to the Supreme Court, so this probably isn't over yet. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will uphold this important ruling, and recognize that we don't give up our 4th Amendment rights at the border.
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"Hey, shepherd, if I guess how many sheep are here, can I keep one?" she asks.
The shepherd agrees. She blurts out, "352!"
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Massachusetts's chief economic asset in the global economy is its unparalleled brain trust — the preparation and production of a highly educated citizenry and workforce. As a national leader in education, the Commonwealth has seen its elementary and secondary students rise to the occasion time and again with increased rates of proficiency on state and national exams.
But beneath the surface of this strong student performance, a more nuanced picture emerges. Thirty-six percent of Massachusetts's public high school graduates who enroll at one of the state's public colleges or universities — including two-thirds of all community college students — place into one or more noncredit-bearing, remedial courses.
Achievement gaps between students of color and white students are higher than the national average, as are the gaps between the college enrollment rates of students of color and white students. In a state where 72 percent of the jobs will require college degrees or training by 2020, the fact that so many students are deemed unprepared for college should set off alarms.
Educators need new assessment tools that guide them in instituting earlier and more effective interventions to support struggling students. Over the past decade, we have learned a lot about learning progressions and expectations for what students need to be prepared for college and careers. More recently, teams of K-12 educators and college faculty have worked together to create the state's first joint definition of what it means to be truly ready for life after high school.
With this foundation laid, it's time to improve our testing program to reflect this new, shared standard for college and career readiness. MCAS, the state's highly regarded assessment program, has served the commonwealth well, but remains largely unchanged since its inception in 1998. MCAS also was never intended to assess college and career readiness, only student proficiency at the K-12 level.
Massachusetts students in grades 3-11 are now embarking on a two-year "test drive" of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a new computer-based assessment system that will help educators better gauge whether a student is ready for life after high school.
A computer-based test will allow us to improve the ways that students can demonstrate academic knowledge and critical thinking, along with their application to real world situations. Computers will allow students to complete performance-based tasks that better measure the range of skills that colleges and employers say are necessary for students to acquire.
PARCC's development is aligned to the state's learning standards in English language arts/literacy and mathematics. Adopted in 2010, the standards are strong, comprehensive, and academically demanding. We now need a new test capable of measuring student progress toward these standards. PARCC has the potential to meet this goal.
Will PARCC replace MCAS? Massachusetts has adopted a deliberate approach to determining whether PARCC can serve the commonwealth's goal of ensuring that all students have the academic preparation necessary to succeed after high school. A two-year "test drive" period will provide the state with time to work with school districts on securing funding to incorporate digital learning technologies, including the ability to administer online assessments. The results will inform our final decision in 2015 on whether to permanently replace MCAS with PARCC.
PARCC provides a solid bridge from K-12 to higher education. It offers a much clearer understanding of whether a student is ready for college, and could also reduce the need for costly remedial programs.
Massachusetts's public colleges and universities are prepared to use student performance on PARCC as an indicator of students' readiness for entry-level college courses, provided that the new standards meet expectations with regard to rigor and effectiveness. We believe that the work to upgrade teaching and learning and develop a 21st century assessment system aligned to our college and career ready standards is essential — to the aspirations of individual students and to the state which relies on the brainpower we produce.
Mitchell Chester is the Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, and serves as national chair of the PARCC Governing Board. Richard Freeland is the Massachusetts Commissioner of Higher Education, and serves as the co-chair of the PARCC Advisory Committee on College Readiness.


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The promoter wanted Deontay Wilder. The problem? The fight was in 10 days.
The promoter wanted Deontay Wilder. The problem? The fight was in 10 days.
After a conversation with Golden Boy Promotions, the promoter made his best pitch to Wilder and his co-trainer, Jay Deas, on why to accept the fight. Just like that, the fight was made.
Wilder squares off against Matt Greer tonight at Centro de Convenciones in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. The fight is scheduled to be broadcast on Fox Sports Espanol.
Greer is 15-8 with 13 of his wins coming by knockout. The St. Louis native measured in at 6-foot-2, 240 pounds. The 6-7 Wilder weighed in at 225.
"They already had a fighter set to go when they called us," Deas said. "They had a Cuban heavyweight, but they really wanted Deontay. We decided to do it."
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