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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Agents can randomly seize travelers' laptops or PDAs

Bill Hogan was returning home from Germany in February when a customs agent at Washington Dulles International Airport pulled him aside.

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Tim

Rochester, NY

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Jul 3, 2008
 
Down with the TSA!
Surf52

Baltimore, MD

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Jul 3, 2008
 
Jackboots are us.
mormontea

West Orange, NJ

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Jul 4, 2008
 
....and ... the ... home ... of ... theeeeee brrave!
jerry w

Midway City, CA

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Jul 5, 2008
 
This is certainly going to be a benefit to Microsoft and other on-line program and storage providers. These programs would allow you to work worldwide on the net on any sort of project, and then delete everything off the laptop before you return to the U.S., keeping the information on remote servers to be reclaimed when back home. Such an easy workaround would make this action useless, just one more piece of big brother crawling around in your personal life.

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Makeshift Patriot

Baltimore, MD

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Jul 5, 2008
 
jerry w wrote:
This is certainly going to be a benefit to Microsoft and other on-line program and storage providers. These programs would allow you to work worldwide on the net on any sort of project, and then delete everything off the laptop before you return to the U.S., keeping the information on remote servers to be reclaimed when back home. Such an easy workaround would make this action useless, just one more piece of big brother crawling around in your personal life.
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Shoot, you can do that with hotmail, or even use a media card. The USA is really turning into a police state.
RUSCO

Joined: May 11, 2008

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Värnamo, Sweden

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Aug 1, 2008
 
so now the government can take what they want, and you must buy a new one! bullshit, are they that broke? is the usa becoming a communist country?
Robert Bland in Calgary

Calgary, Canada

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Aug 2, 2008
 
You used to have such a great country!

I've enjoyed holidays in New York, Nashville, Chicago, Las Vegas, etc., but now that laptops, mp3 players, cameras can be seized on the whim of a customs agent, I think I'll pass.

Maybe I'll go to Cuba instead.
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