ACLU Sues For Records On Border Laptop Searches

TechPolitik writes "The ACLU has sued the US Customs and Border Protection agency under the Freedom of Information Act, aiming to obtain records on the agency's policy of searching laptops at the border. Under the policy, the CBP can search through financial records, photos, and Web site histories, and retain that information for unspecified periods of time. The ACLU is arguing that the information is necessary to understand whether the CBP may be violating the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable and unwarranted searches. The agency has so far not responded to requests for comment."

Comments

Re:It's a search without a warrant.

[mckinleyn]

You are an incoherent babbler. Please attempt to pay attention in your high school English course. Then perhaps we will be able to understand you and critique your logic instead.

Re:It's a search without a warrant.

[Nefarious Wheel]

Otherwise, according to your rather tortured and fuzzy "logic", we'd have to locate airports at the precise border of the US and disallow any international flights except for those which land there.

Which gives rise to the question my old high school math teacher asked us once. If an aircraft crashes in the middle of the Rio Grande, and half the passengers were Mexican and half were American, and the aircraft was registered in Liberia, where would the survivors be buried?

No, don't answer that. Really. Don't.

Re:It's a search without a warrant.

[LVSlushdat]

Hell, why does he have to be American-born? Obama isn't, and he's president...