ACLU suing the government to stop border laptops/electronics searches

[thewayne]

Border searches have a lower standard of probable cause, but as our personal electronics contain more and more personal and intimate information, this is not good. I would definitely sanitize my laptop if I were going to/returning from a foreign country.

I don't have anything to hide, but that doesn't give you the right to go poking through it. And if someone says otherwise, ask them for their bank account numbers and the last ten years of their tax returns and see what they say.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/laptop-border-searches/

Comments

[silveradept]

I find it very interesting that the government is claiming they don't have to have a reason to search your electronics. Considering the Border Patrol can probably detain and delay you indefinitely on other things, why not say "No, guys, you really do have to get a warrant if you're suspicious, instead of just fishing to hope you catch someone".