Coming back in June from a trip to China, Sri Lanka, and Thailand,
I had a border agent ask for my digital camera, and he proceeded to
walk through every photo, about 800 pictures, asking me questions
about where I had gone and what I had done.
For what it's worth, this is much more invasiv
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Well, I've never had a laptop checked so far (and indeed it'd be crazily
long lines if everybody with a laptop got checked).
This is not very new .. has always been the case, but reaffirmed by a
ruling I think. Earlier, the TSA was being blamed
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [03/05/08 22:50 +0200]:
i know suresh will complain of EFF exaggeration, but it does annoy me
that it's perfectly legal for US customs agents to search laptops [1].
it's just not clear what for. i do believe some other countries
occasionally run searches for pirated movies.
W
i know suresh will complain of EFF exaggeration, but it does annoy me
that it's perfectly legal for US customs agents to search laptops [1].
it's just not clear what for. i do believe some other countries
occasionally run searches for pirated movies.
"Now that US customs agents have unfettered acc