Decius wrote:

flynn23 wrote:

Customs and Border Patrol agents can grab your laptop, BlackBerry, or external hard drive without needing so much as a reason, but a new bill introduced last week to Congress would at least put some limits on how border searches could be done.

Was there ever an explanation given other than "security" as to why they are seizing these items?

So they can perform a forensic analysis of them in search of evidence of any crime.

So is this just an end run on habeus corpus? Or is it a legal "grey zone" because we're dealing with border checkpoints and not terra firma?

God, what the fuck is wrong with these people? Who is sitting in a meeting where this gets proposed and says "I think that's a good idea..."???

RE: New bill would tighten rules for DHS border laptop searches