See each subtract the U.S. Customs computers, mobile phones, music players, cameras and whatever else may no longer be a nightmare hanging over the heads of the passengers. To propose to return to regulate invasive customs controls is Senator Russ Feingold, a bill that aims to balance the reasons for the fight against crime with the right to privacy of citizens.
devices of professionals, tourists and businessmen are now vulnerable to gutting Customs staff can break into the lives of citizens seizing a computer, can search documents between work and entertainment products in search of incriminating files, and may confiscate devices retain indefinitely to effectively protect national security. The digital arbitrary searches were also legitimated by a ruling by the Ninth Section of the Federal Court of Appeals of the United States groped unnecessary to prove that a laptop can stay in a substantial proportion of their lives, that the contents of a hard disk is a extension of the mind of the owner and break into a computer equivalent to extort a confession. Nothing to do, the court ruled that the computers are comparable to a suitcase that the digital life of the owner of the device is comparable to the notes and papers scattered among clothes housed in the luggage. For this reason, the customs officials could inspect the content storage device even if it had had a "reasonable suspicion" towards the passenger.
The court's decision had pitted the defenders of the rights of the citizen: in front of the Senate had expressed its demands, had sought protection for the passenger to the border could lose confidence in a laptop and a thorough inspection and seizure in a completely arbitrary that it could continue ad libitum.
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