Anonymous Coward User ID: 20566260 United States 02/09/2013 01:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Your computers, cell phones (any elect devices) can be seized within 100 miles of US BORDER FOR ANY REASON This is 2/3 of us population. [ link to www.wired.com] DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security. The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it would conduct a “Civil Liberties Impact Assessment” of its suspicionless search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic devices “within 120 days.” More than three years later, the DHS office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties published a two-page executive summary of its findings. “We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits,” the executive summary said. Link to the actual executive summary [ link to www.dhs.gov] |