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Customs now entering laptops and cellphones

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

An article in yesterday's Washington Post reveals that Customs is entering citizen's laptops and cellphones to look for anything that they want. In short, customs searches are no longer confined to luggage, or the person, as the case may be. See Ellen Nakashima, Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches / U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices: Nabila Mango, a therapist and a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was detained at customs and her cellphone was taken from her purse. Her daughter, waiting outside San Francisco International Airport, tried repeatedly to call her during the hour and a half she was questioned. But after her phone was returned, Mango saw that records of her daughter's calls had been erased...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).