U.S. agents can seize travelers' laptops: report

U.S. agents can seize travelers' laptops: report

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday.
Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies, such seizures may be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing, the newspaper said, quoting policies issued on July 16 by two DHS agencies.

Agents are empowered to share the contents of seized computers with other agencies and private entities for data decryption and other reasons, the newspaper said.

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CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS CRAP!!!!!!!!

I already feel like a damn criminal in the airport as it is, now this.

The police state is really flexing here. My laptop and I-phone are the enemy now???
They are going after pagers, beepers and flash drives as well.

Just how many more freedoms are they going to yank away. My hard drive and phone, with out cause??? Come on!!

What a bunch of s**t



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When are people going to stand up to that kind of BS?

for NO REASON they can already ...

Fingerprint you,
Photograph you,
Strip search you and body cavity search,
Take ANY of your possessions and you clothing you are wearing etc.
Scan the insides of you eyes,
Blood, hair, DNA etc. tests,
Hold you as long as they like and tell no one you are being detained.

And they are about to buy millions of those stun shock wrist locks to electric shock badly behaved passengers.

Good to live in the free world isn’t it?