Posted on 08/02/2008 5:13:13 AM PDT by stevie_d_64
Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
In April, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the government’s power to conduct searches of an international traveler’s laptop without suspicion of wrongdoing. The Customs policy can be viewed at: http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/travel/admissability/
search_authority.ctt/search_authority.pdf.
Not very surprising where they got this ruling...
Just another way they have chipped away at our property and privacy, in the name of security...
Once this becomes embedded in our daily lives, it will be used to further erode other aspects of our lives as a useful presidence...
“See, it worked on those...Now we can go after “other” things...” (generally speaking, hypothetically)
freeped..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054963/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055028/posts
Oh mannnnn!!!
And I even did a search and everything!!! “Laptop Seizures”
Not a single hit...hmmmmmm...
Sorry...
http://www.google.com/swr?q=site:freerepublic.com&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&swrnum=2050000
The spectacle of the judges recoiling and hissing in pain while shielding their eyes with their forearms was just getting to be too much of a distraction.
Gracias...
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