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Update: Border searches of laptops and electronic media

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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On Juris's PaperChase is DHS announces increased oversight for US border laptop searches about explanations from Customs and Border Protection had directives issued for searches of laptop and electronic media. Also recently released is a Privacy Impact Statement. I posted this comment tonight about the current goings on: Laptop searches at the US border implicate legitimate Fourth Amendment concerns. CBP thus far seems to have limited its laptop searches to child pornography, and then with reasonable suspicion, but what about the future: CBP is searching laptop computers, a least in the litigated cases that I have seen, only for child pornography. And, they at least appear to be limiting these searches to those whom they have reasonable suspicion to believe are potentially transporting child pornography into the county...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on August 31, 2009 (boomark / email).

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