Court sanctions the U.S. internal security, border laptop search

Without a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity - Appeals court administration claims that the evidence for the U.S. Customs agents can peruse electronic devices slaps.

Homeland Security said without giving a reason NWFP your laptop should be able to analyze the court. A federal appeals court has agreed.
Today, U.S. Customs officials at the border snatch your laptop and all your files for incriminating data before the scan must be reasonable
grounds, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the Homeland Security border agents 'reasonable suspicion' before they legally laptops, mobile phones, camera memory card, and you can test the court.
One is limited. Search the Electronic Frontier Homeland Security terror, drugs, smugglers, and people can detect a violation of the "laws of copyright, or trademark."

Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano travelers jennet uncontrolled border laptop search is defended.
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It rejects the NWFP only on a limited warrantless search is justified: the judges said "a quick look" or to turn and open the windows to peruse her boss asking for a laptop, "unintrusive search" is absolutely right. In addition, the court indicated that previous criminal history "reasonable suspicion" that are eligible for a full forensic analysis justifies.
should. Department of Justice legal brief before the Ninth Circuit has defended this view, the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections are limited to border "is not necessarily reasonable doubt.
Ninth Circuit ruling EN Bank is an excerpt:
Goods or passengers by automobile traditionally shaped by international passengers carried was circumscribed amount of private information. This is not the case. Electronic devices capable of storing of data warehouses are full. A general educational level equivalent to five library - average 400 gb laptop hard drive can store 200 million pages. Even with sensitive documents suitcases packed full of totally not hold a candle, can increase storage capacity and digital.
The nature of electronic devices and equipment is different from. Laptop computers, iPads and personal diary that has offices simultaneously. Financial records, confidential business documents, medical records and personal e-mail: the most intimate details of our life consists of. The fourth type of content reserve the right to edit specific guarantees in the implicates "papers."
Electronic devices often regarded as the point of erasure especially after browsing history and deleted files of records to maintain sensitive and confidential information. These standards impractical, if not impossible, for people about meaningful digital content is checked with the international travel decisions is exposed. A person's digital life should not be hijacked by a cross. The traditional packaging materials, paper and a decided drop is used. When a laptop, tablet, or other devices have, however, unnecessary files off an impending trip feasible solution given the size and nature often intermingled files. This is a time-consuming task that can effectively erase the files.
International travelers certainly hope that the property will be found on the border. He did not expect that absent some particularized suspicion, agents on their devices every last piece of data or these days for my most personal possession (or perhaps weeks or months, depending on how long the search takes 's) lost his. The most intimate details of one's life as personal privacy and dignity upon a full and detailed search is quite intervention. Therefore, we hold that [judicial examination is required] reasonable doubt, in light of the Fourth Amendment requires an exceptional performance.
Led by Judge Consuelo Callahan, a few judges dissented, saying that the "Fourth Amendment, most free," the majority opinion and an unworkable theory.
Written by Judge Milan Smith, a difference that passengers flagging the sentences based on decades old money "reasonable doubt," "The bottom line is that thousands of people - many with decades-old beliefs - Now all countries or even continents travel to revise, or electronic equipment left behind by a 'reasonable' need to avoid arousing suspicion would be "forced.
Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat who lost his re-election bid, said legislation is needed to show that Homeland Security conducted by U.S. residents to find electronic components due to illegal activity before was suspected. Was introduced. Held devices for more than 24 hours, border agents probable cause and a warrant to prove or court order will be obtained.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006 effectively Happy Homeland Security Practice, a 3-0 decision, said that the border police can search random laptop - using a wide EnCase forensic software analysis including - without search warrants or probable cause.
The present case, Howard Cotterman, who with his wife was driving home from a trip to Mexico owned by an examination outside of the laptop. No customs agents a full forensic analysis of the laptop because it seemed to lack - just because his name appeared in a database of sex offenders - and found the child porn he had claimed.