New rules at the airport could force you to hand over your phone and passwords

House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations and Homeland Security Committee members

Homeland Security officials have started asking people to unlock their phones and computers and log into their social media accounts at routine border crossings, and Congress could make that practice permanent.

We need to stop this threat to our basic privacy rights before handing over all of your most personal information becomes as commonplace as removing your shoes to fly.

Let’s draw a line -- sign the urgent petition to stop Social Media Strip Searches! Here's the text: "Demanding warrantless access to our phones and computers at the border is an invasion of privacy and weakens our security. Ban this practice immediately."

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To: House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations and Homeland Security Committee members
From: [Your Name]

Proposals, including recent testimony by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly in front of the House Homeland Security Committee, are coming forward to require all travelers to the U.S. to provide their unlocked electronic devices and social media passwords to border agents as a matter of routine.

As a member of a committee charged with upholding friendly relations, trade, tourism, and commerce between the U.S. and other nations, we are calling on you to reject in the strongest possible way any legislation which would make proposals to allow border officials to demand unlocked cell phones and computers for inspection and into law.