February 11, 2008
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This is how it felt today …
Has anyone else been reading the various articles (here and here) about Border Patrol search and seizure of electronic devices such as laptops, blackberries, cellphones and other devices that can store data? As much as I’m an advocate for national security this seems to go against the whole idea of the 4th Amendment and personal privacy rules. The fact they are forcing people to login to their laptops to do the search, not returning said property and I think the kicker is they are not specifying what U.S. law they are utilizing to search your items. I know on my work laptop there is a pop-up before login that states the Federal Law against unauthorized usage of the laptop. I would expect that if anyone other than myself or someone from where I work were to use it they would then be liable to whatever consequences my workplace could come up with. Yeah I know, big threat.
On a side note, looks like we should stockup on some “Forever Stamps.”
