.gov can take your electronic info at the border
So ruled a NY judge. A fucked up ruling all the way around. First, he says the plaintiff had no standing because this type of search doesn’t happen that much. Then goes on to say, if they had standing, it’d still be OK for the .gov to take their laptop.
January 2nd, 2014 at 1:51 pm
I don’t know that the judge had all that much choice. It’s pretty much “always has been the law” that there’s no probable cause requirement for border searches, and “reasonableness” is more elastic than [something really elastic].
January 2nd, 2014 at 1:52 pm
Don’t have anything that you don’t want the government to see when you enter or leave the country.
January 2nd, 2014 at 3:33 pm
@nk- the Judge always has the choice. He can read the 4th amendment, and say “WTF Government? GTFO here with that unconstitutional shit”. Instead. like most judges, they use weasely ways to defer to the government.
Same thing happens in 2nd Amendment cases.
January 2nd, 2014 at 11:05 pm
Just use some really nasty encryption. There is some really tough software made outside the US without NSA approved back doors. Pretty simple if you do your part.
January 2nd, 2014 at 11:37 pm
“First, he says the plaintiff had no standing because this type of search doesn’t happen that much.”
Wonder how he’d feel regarding the status of an “occasional” rapist of his wife/daughter.