Why You Shouldn’t Enter the US With Your Laptop
August 4, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Laptops
Apparently Homeland security agents can confiscate your laptop at any port of entry—without any sort of reasonable suspicion whatsoever! Even worse, the agents can “share copies of the laptop’s contents” with other people for a variety of reasons. These two facts are already pretty bad (goodbye privacy, visitors to the US). What’s even much worse are reports that seized laptops take weeks, even months to recover.
Two things that are really bad for gadget geeks everywhere. You’ve got confiscation of a beloved technological tool. Then you can’t get anything significant done, as you wait for the stereotypically long American bureaucracy to …read more
