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Re: Suspicion not required for border laptop seizures
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:19:35 -0700
________________________________________ From: Steven M. Bellovin [smb () cs columbia edu] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 5:34 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Suspicion not required for border laptop seizures The wording of the policy bothers me even more than the policy itself. For one thing, while the discussion has been in terms of "they can do this when you enter the country", the policy applies to "information possessed by individuals who are encountered by CBP at the border, functional equivalent of the border, or extended border." Does that apply to outgoing laptops? The document says speaks of "evidence of embargo violations or other import or export control laws." Export? I'm also unclear on what the "functional equivalent of the border, or extended border" are. Given the policies about checking for undocumented aliens on I-5 north of San Diego, does this mean that CBP can look at any data within San Diego? What are their limits? --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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