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Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules | Ars Technica
Topic: Miscellaneous 3:50 pm EDT, May 13, 2015

The Court finds, under the totality of the unique circumstances of this case, that the imaging and search of the entire contents of Kim’s laptop, aided by specialized forensic software, for a period of unlimited duration and an examination of unlimited scope, for the purpose of gathering evidence in a pre-existing investigation, was supported by so little suspicion of ongoing or imminent criminal activity, and was so invasive of Kim’s privacy and so disconnected from not only the considerations underlying the breadth of the government’s authority to search at the border, but also the border itself, that it was unreasonable.

Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules | Ars Technica



 
 
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