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Justice Department opposes digital privacy reforms | Privacy Inc. - CNET News: "more privacy protections and to require court approval before tracking Americans' cell phones would hinder police investigations."
Obviously! The 4th admendment also hinders police investigations!
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Once Again, Court Says Homeland Security Is Free To Seize & Search Your Computer Without A Warrant At The Border | Techdirt
Once Again, Court Says Homeland Security Is Free To Seize & Search Your Computer Without A Warrant At The Border | Techdirt: "You mostly store everything on your laptop. So, unlike a suitcase that you're bringing with you, it's the opposite. You might specifically choose what to exclude, but you don't really choose what to include. With a suitcase, you specifically choose what to include.
The reason you bring the contents on your laptop over the border is because you're bringing your laptop over the border. If you wanted the content of your laptop to go over the border you'd just send it using the internet. There are no 'border guards' on the internet itself, so content flows mostly freely across international boundaries. Thus if anyone wants to get certain content into a country via the internet, they're not doing it by entering that country through border control.
And this becomes even more ridiculous in the era of cloud computing, where a drive may be mounted over the network, and thus never actually cross the border at all -- and yet, Homeland Security seems to think it has the right to search all of this, and the courts have mostly agreed."
The reason you bring the contents on your laptop over the border is because you're bringing your laptop over the border. If you wanted the content of your laptop to go over the border you'd just send it using the internet. There are no 'border guards' on the internet itself, so content flows mostly freely across international boundaries. Thus if anyone wants to get certain content into a country via the internet, they're not doing it by entering that country through border control.
And this becomes even more ridiculous in the era of cloud computing, where a drive may be mounted over the network, and thus never actually cross the border at all -- and yet, Homeland Security seems to think it has the right to search all of this, and the courts have mostly agreed."
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