Sunday, June 29, 2008

Random Inspection of Your Laptop’s Content at U.S. Border

I’ve travelled quite a bit in the past, but I didn’t even know about this: US Customs and Border Protection agents can "randomly" seize your laptop, camera, cell phone and other electronic devices at the border for inspection - meaning they’ll take a peek at what you’ve got stored in your machine: Bill Hogan was returning home to the U.S. from Germany in February when a customs agent at Dulles International Airport pulled him aside. He could reenter the country, she told him. But his laptop co