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ALA and ARL are among 50 organizations that have signed a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0supporting privacy protection of transnational travelers from undue search of personal electronic devices. The American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation both report an\u00a0increase in complaints<\/a>\u00a0filed within the past month regarding U.S. border official searches of laptops and smart phones. In a recent legislative hearing, Department of Homeland Security secretary John Kelly proposed that submission of social media passwords could be required of non-citizens trying to gain access to the U.S. Requiring access to non-citizen social media accounts has ripple effects on U.S. citizen privacy, as well. More on this story is available from the\u00a0District Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n State:<\/p>\n Your state legislators are in session this week. Check out what they’ll be discussing:\u00a0Senate Weekly Schedule<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0House Weekly Schedule<\/a>. Need help understanding what “Last Action” means and why it is important to understanding where the bill is in the Illinois legislative process? Then try this\u00a0flowchart<\/a>. For even more help, try this\u00a0guide<\/a>\u00a0from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Federal: ALA and ARL are among 50 organizations that have signed a\u00a0statement\u00a0supporting privacy protection of transnational travelers from undue search of personal electronic devices. The American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation both report an\u00a0increase in complaints\u00a0filed within the past month regarding U.S. border official searches of laptops and smart phones. In a recent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}