Update: Border search and seizure of laptops are permissible
Posted in Privacy by Dan at 3:57 pm
This post was published 3 years 4 months 29 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Over two months ago, we reported that the US can legally search and seize laptops at border crossings, with reason or warrants.
Now, actual cases of use of this law are coming to light.
“One [person...] has been waiting for a year to get her laptop and its contents back, [...] it was randomly seized. And since [the owner] hasn’t been arrested, I assume [the owner] was just a regular business traveler, not a criminal.”
This is a really scary law considering They don’t need probable cause to perform these searches under the current law customs agents don’t need probable cause to perform these searches.
Do you think that this law is a necessity to protect our country, or another excuse for the government to pry into personal business?
everytime I read a story like this, it makes me feel as if America, the great country that I love, is slowly turning into a dictatorship…this must stop…
America has lost it’s way. You are less free than others in the G8. Why don’t you move on up to Canada?
Nah, please don’t move to Canada. We’re full. *shifty eyes*
Ofcourse its needed! its all needed we gotta keep the terrists out.. also a camera in every corner of every room on the planet.. and one in everyone eyes too just to make sure they aren’t hiding any terrist infomation in their eyelids .. in State of the Union by Rise Against one of the lines is “if we’re a flagship of peace and prosperity we’re taking on water and we’re about to fuckin sink” .. I couldn’t agree more