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US Customs/DHS have the right to seize laptops at the border

08/01/08 | by Adam | Categories: Technology

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2008/08/01/laptops.html?hpid=topnews

Well, it's been an unofficial option for the American customs for a while now but its documented:

they can take your laptop, or anything else, for no reason at all, forever, and disclose anything they find to anyone they feel like:

That's a remarkably broad mandate.

(Via BoingBoing; also via The Register)

 

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