Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border (washingtonpost.com)

washingtonpost.com - 8/1/2008

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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. Also, officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data ...

washingtonpost.com - 8/1/2008

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border

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Homeland Security Can Snatch Your Laptop at the Border, No Questions Asked [Security]
Gizmodo — ... Better flush your porn transfer folder before heading home from Tijuana, guys, because the DHS can and will find it, according to a report by the Washington Post. They also have permission to take your laptop or any other electronic device to an off-site location indefinitely, and share its contents with other agencies or private entities (read: anyone) for translation, decryption, or "other reasons." And it's not just your laptop you should be careful about, unfortunately. ...

DHS border policy: we can steal anything from you, read all your data, and disclose it to anyone we want
Boing Boing — ... according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "The policies . . . are truly alarming," said Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), who is probing the government's border search practices. He said he intends to introduce legislation soon that would require reasonable suspicion for border searches, as well as prohibit profiling on race, religion or national origin. Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border (via /.) ...