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US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection
ceide2000 writes "The government contends that it is perfectly free to inspect every laptop that enters the country, whether or not there is anything suspicious about the computer or its owner. Rummaging through a computer's hard drive, the government says, is no different from looking through a suitcase. One federal appeals court has agreed, and a second seems ready to follow suit." This story follows up on a story about laptop confiscation at the borders from a few months ago.
If you can afford a plane ticket crossing borders, you can afford a laptop.
Great way of making yourself look like a retard with that last sentence.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
The "loopholes" as you call them are usually the true purposes of the laws you mentioned.
HIPAA being a prime example.
They'll (they being legislators, lobbyists, etc) create a law or regulation in an area which is already pretty much covered by existing legislation or standards..
Then the marketing of said law starts...They'll claim "This law clarifies and preempts existing laws, and this law protects you from X, Y, and Z"...but in reality, what they are really doing is defining said law to mean X, Y, and Z are now illegal - but they don't tell you that the reason they are doing so is so that their buddies in the private sector can then use methods A, B, and C to accomplish something far worse.