The ACLU filed a complaint on behalf of the Apple employee Andreas Gal, who said he was detained by CBP when returning home from a business trip.
Andreas Gal said that in November, officers with US Customs and Border Protection detained him at San Francisco International Airport as he was returning home from a business trip in Europe.
A CBP spokesperson told Business Insider that searching travelers' electronics is within the agency's authority. The ACLU lodged a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the US Department of Homeland Security over Gal's story — a move the organization believes was warranted because of its concerns over why Gal was chosen and what it sees as an unlawful attempt to search and seize his devices, according to Bill Freeman, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.
For his part, Gal said that he's shaken by the notion that his phone could be subject to this kind of search. "It chills free speech," Freeman said."People start to think 'if I say this' or 'if I take this controversial client' or 'if I take this controversial stance' and change their behavior. Does the government have a right to know what I'm saying? I don't think so."
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