I am all for protecting us from the “bad guys” but I am also for individual rights and the constitution. Another troubling story appeared in the Washington Post today on the issue of border agents having the power to seize your laptop, cell phone, iPod, or any other electronics that can store information without cause and take it away and rummage through it and keep it for however long it takes. This was a topic back in June, and now it is coming up again.
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.
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