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| Laptops fair game to airport searches; No evidence of wrongdoing necessary | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 22 2008, 04:49 AM Post #1 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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http://cbs5.com/localwire/22.0.html?type=b...LAPTOP-SEARCHES
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| JBryan | Apr 22 2008, 04:58 AM Post #2 |
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Customs agents have never required suspicion of wrongdoing to search whomever or whatever they like entering the country. I don't see why the contents of a computer should be exempt. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 22 2008, 05:00 AM Post #3 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Well presumably there's got to be a line somewhere. Can customs agents look at your bank statements, tax information or medical records? That sort of stuff could very easily be on someone's laptop. |
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| QuirtEvans | Apr 22 2008, 05:10 AM Post #4 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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If you bring it in in hard copy, sure they can. I'm with JB here. Although they have to be looking at it for a legitimate (Customs-related) purpose. Checking for evidence of a crime committed in the U.S., for example tax evasion, would seem out of bounds. That's true for physical evidence, too. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| JBryan | Apr 22 2008, 05:10 AM Post #5 |
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They can look at them if you are carrying paper copies. To put it bluntly you can be strip searched by customs if they so choose. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 22 2008, 05:11 AM Post #6 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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What dicks. |
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| QuirtEvans | Apr 22 2008, 05:14 AM Post #7 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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When I went to live in London for a year, they stopped me at the U.K. border ... and sent me into the back for a chest x-ray for tuberculosis. If anything had popped on the x-ray, they'd have denied me entry. Strip search indeed. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 22 2008, 05:16 AM Post #8 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Did anything about you indicate that you might have had tb? |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 22 2008, 05:21 AM Post #9 |
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By search laptops - do they mean actually search your files, or just the physical laptop? When coming back to the USA from Italy through Frankfurt, Germany, the agents searched my carry on and had to do a special scan of my portable DVD player to make sure nothing was physically hidden in it. |
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| smithodude | Apr 22 2008, 05:22 AM Post #10 |
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Junior Carp
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We like to keep our little island free of nasty victorian diseases. This is the 21st century you know! |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 22 2008, 09:56 AM Post #11 |
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MAMIL
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I'm glad my call got through, although I suspect they may have mis-heard my suggestion. I didn't say 'X-ray', I actually said 'X-rated'. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| DivaDeb | Apr 22 2008, 11:32 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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searching dicks qualify |
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