The question as to whether border agents and
investigators have the right to snoop through
travelers' laptops as they enter the United States
is stirring up even more controversy...
The Association of Corporate Travel Executives
disagrees. It filed an amicus brief in the case this
week.
"Over the past several years, U.S. customs agents
have been searching and even seizing travelers'
laptops when they are entering or leaving the
country if the traveler fits a profile, appears on a
government watch list, or is chosen for a random
inspection," the group said in a joint statement
with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The
Supreme Court has ruled that customs and border
agents may perform routine searches at the border
without a warrant or even reasonable suspicion, but
EFF and ACTE argue that inspections of computers are
far more invasive than flipping through a
briefcase."
