Thursday, September 9, 2010

Groups Sue Over Suspicionless Laptop Search Policy At The Border

from American Civil Liberties Union. More infringements on American citizen's right to privacy that continues the descent of the US into a police state.
DHS [Department of Homeland Security] asserts the right to look though the contents of a traveler's electronic devices – including laptops, cameras and cell phones – and to keep the devices or copy the contents in order to continue searching them once the traveler has been allowed to enter the U.S., regardless of whether the traveler is suspected of any wrongdoing.