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Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches
CBS ^
| 6/5/13
| CBSDC/AP
Posted on 06/05/2013 2:01:37 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) U.S. border agents should continue to be allowed to search a travelers laptop, cellphone or other electronic device and keep copies of any data on them based on no more than a hunch, according to an internal Homeland Security Department study. It contends limiting such searches would prevent the U.S. from detecting child pornographers or terrorists and expose the government to lawsuits.
The 23-page report, obtained by The Associated Press and the American Civil Liberties Union under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, provides a rare glimpse of the Obama administrations thinking on the long-standing but controversial practice of border agents and immigration officers searching and in some cases holding for weeks or months the digital devices of anyone trying to enter the U.S.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homeland; laptops; phones; security
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:01:37 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
2
posted on
06/05/2013 2:03:00 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Nachum
After all, we’re the government. We should be able to snoop or steal anything you have on a hunch.
3
posted on
06/05/2013 2:03:56 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were Iviolated...)
To: Nachum
The only goal here is to harass legal citizens all the while the borders are leaking like a sieve.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:04:27 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
To: Nachum
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:04:50 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: Nachum
And I suppose that if one has encrypted his laptop’s hard drive, and declines to give the password for unlocking it, one can be detained indefinitely, based on recent court precedent IIRC.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:04:55 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:05:26 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: Nachum
Just photo shop what Janet Napolitano would look like nude and make it your desktop background. That will stop anybody in their tracks!
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:05:49 PM PDT
by
GregNH
(If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
To: Nachum
Ah, “specific and articulable”, we hardly knew ye.
9
posted on
06/05/2013 2:08:48 PM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Nachum
My laptop was accessed by Canadian immigration agents a few years ago.They demanded the password and,while they were tearing my car apart,they looked at the contents for about 5 minutes.In all my many travels overseas I’ve only been searched by three countries upon entry...Vietnam,India and Canada.Quite embarrassing and annoying to be sure...particularly by a civilized country like Canada.
To: Nachum
The fascists are gaining ground.
To: Nachum
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:11:04 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: GregNH
TruCrypt with hidden directory is your friend.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:11:49 PM PDT
by
garyb
To: I want the USA back
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:12:10 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: Nachum
Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches
Are these the same people that does nothing about all the illegal aliens that are in this country illegally and they want to search our personal items on a hunch!? Wow!
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:14:24 PM PDT
by
ForAmerica
(Texas Conservative Christian Black Man!)
To: garyb
“TruCrypt with hidden directory is your friend.”
And then in cloud storage.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:16:51 PM PDT
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: Steely Tom
And I suppose that if one has encrypted his laptops hard drive, and declines to give the password for unlocking it, one can be detained indefinitely, based on recent court precedent IIRC.
Oh, silly me, that was my Shred and Crash Self-Destruct password.
You probably wanted the other one, didn't you?
To: Nachum
Unacceptable. I might have company confidential information on that laptop, that I'm not *allowed* to share.
And who knows how much crap downloaded by dubious websites.
If I was truly up to no good, I could easily have e-mailed and erased any incriminating bits ahead of time, so searching laptops makes no sense at all.
Government afraid of lawsuits if they don't search? Gimme a break!
Probable cause and a warrant should still be required.
No fishing expeditions by paranoid governments.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:17:20 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Nachum
Hunches?
What are warrants, nothing?
The real question is how far down into the freaking abyss is this coup going to go before someone majoryly pushes back? Where are the oathkeepers? I don’t mean specifically the organization, just all the oathtakers in all levels, where ever they may be. I hope a goodly percentage of them are considering this.
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:17:49 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: Nachum
....well....I have a hunch that a certain miscreant at 1600 is using a Blackberry cell phone for nefarious purposes...
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posted on
06/05/2013 2:19:08 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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