Without a Warrant? They seem to think so.
It's becoming an increasingly common practice, as the Washington Post reports. Using their authority to inspect goods and luggage of people coming in to the US to search for contraband without a warrant, customs and border agents are seizing laptops, cell phones and other electronic devices to download, inspect (and store?) their contents. Up till now the authoirty has just been assumed and asserted without any clear legal guidelines. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Asian Law Caucus have filed a lawsuit to clarify which policies and laws govern the seizing and copying of the contents of electronic devices.
It's becoming an increasingly common practice, as the Washington Post reports. Using their authority to inspect goods and luggage of people coming in to the US to search for contraband without a warrant, customs and border agents are seizing laptops, cell phones and other electronic devices to download, inspect (and store?) their contents. Up till now the authoirty has just been assumed and asserted without any clear legal guidelines. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Asian Law Caucus have filed a lawsuit to clarify which policies and laws govern the seizing and copying of the contents of electronic devices.
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