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Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border

Posted by kdawson on from the cold-dead-fingers dept.

suitablegirl writes "As we have discussed, Customs and Border Patrol is allowed to seize and download data from laptops or electronic devices of Americans returning from abroad. At a Senate hearing tomorrow, privacy advocates and industry groups will urge the lawmakers to take action to protect the data and privacy of Americans not guilty of anything besides wanting to go home."

5 of 526 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Countermeasure by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, they will be searching you. You don't want to give them any ideas.

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  2. Re:About time. by linzeal · · Score: 5, Funny

    This only punishes people who are not technically savvy enough to encrypt their documents or store them in a USB key drive.

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  3. Re:About time. by EnglishSteve · · Score: 5, Funny

    MentalImage.Erase()

  4. Re:About time. by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd give quite a lot to see the guard who tries to search Richard Stallman. The man is famous for not bathing, and you could probably hide an OLPC laptop in that beard.

  5. Re:About time. by aproposofwhat · · Score: 5, Funny

    stagonometry

    Encrypted information hidden in the shape of antlers?

    Excellent idea - especially for those damn Scandinavian terrorists bringing their Lapp tops complete with reindeer antlers into the country :o)

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