Laptop searches upheld at border checkpoints

[thewayne]

A district court ruled that searching laptops coming in to the country is legal and don't require a court order or probable cause.

So clean up your laptop before entering the US. A friend of mine bought a MacBook Air with its solid state hard drive and he'll access the files that he needs via .Mac online access: there will be nothing to access on his laptop when he comes in to the US.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_9009312

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/22/1733251

Comments

[silveradept]

Definitely. Find some other way of getting your data across the border before you get here.