Border guards don't need a reason to seize your laptops, cellphones, cameras, iPods, tapes, books, handwritten notes...
We've heard some scary stories, and we've wondered. We've had murky questions and dark suspicions, but we didn't really know anything.
Now -- lucky us -- we have answers! We have clarity! We finally know what to expect in border inspections.
According to the government, border guards can seize any data storage medium, and copy any data -- from your laptop computers, cell phones, digital cameras, memory cards, iPods, portable disk drives and such, as well as from traditional analog media such as tapes, books, pamphlets and even handwritten notes. And they can do it for no reason, without any grounds for suspicion, without any hint that you might have done anything wrong.
We will all be comforted to have answers to longstanding questions.
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