Warrantless Laptop Searches at US Borders (part 1 of 7)

Speaker: Decius

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U.S. customs agents have begun randomly searching the contents of laptops carried by individuals across U.S. border checkpoints. Personal laptops contain increasingly vast and intimate collections of information about their owners, and cannot be easily sanitized for government inspection prior to travel. The privacy implications of this policy are obviously tremendous. There is presently a debate in the U.S. court system about the constitutionality of these searches. This talk will cover the developments so far, explaining (and criticizing) the basic legal framework in which this debate is occurring as well as the reasoning employed by the courts that have heard this issue. Related topics will also be discussed, such as recent controversy over the Fifth Amendment right to refuse to reveal an encryption password to the police and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Attendees will be armed with a deeper understanding of these present threats to our fundamental rights.

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[HardlineAthiest]

Hey, I work as a Security Guard at the Airport [undisclosed location] and did a scan of some high profile foreign corporate executive's laptop. During lunch, I took liberty and copied the drive to my USB Thumbdrive! Guess what?

When I got home I looked at the drive and found shit loads of Cororate Trade Secrets! Docs, new products (nobody's heard of yet!) I even got logins & passwords and a jackpot of profit/loss spreadsheets!!

Wire me 1.2 million in cash, the drive is yours!Obama FAIL!!