2025-08-05 –, Misora
A Lawyer Explains Legal & Security Issues at the Border: if you’re returning to the US and are stopped at customs and immigration, what are your rights (or lack of rights)? This talk was first given in 2017 in the wake of the Muslim Ban, and has been brought out, dusted off, and updated for 2025. This is not a talk about hiding volumes on your phone with whiz-bang crypto software. This is a pragmatic discussion of the border search exception to the 4th Amendment and what could actually happen if CBP or ICE seize your laptop and phone.
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Wendy is a software developer & hacker lawyer who is currently the CISO at a healthcare data analytics firm. She has co-authored a peer reviewed article on FedRAMP in IEEE Security & Privacy, as well as another reviewing other security issues caused by control frameworks published at NDSS. She is a also hacker lawyer who began her career as a software developer at Amazon.com and Google, before going to law school, where she focused on national security law and computer security issues. She interned with the FTC, FCC, and several other three letter agencies, and completed a fellowship with ZwillGen in Washington, D.C.