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U.S. Searches of Laptops at Border Questioned

By Simon Fodden

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We’ve talked half a dozen times on Slaw about the United States Border Services’ practice of instituting suspicionless searches of travellers’ laptops, recommending basically that lawyers take nothing but a clean machine across the border.

Now the American Civil Liberties Union has made a formal request under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act for records setting out or touching upon policies establishing and governing this practice, as well as data as to the number of searches, the characteristics of persons whose devices were searched, and so forth. The official request adumbrates the ACLU argument that these searches may infringe the constitutional rights of travellers. There is also a press release that explains the ACLU request.

[via beSpacific]

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on June 14, 2009 (boomark / email).

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