Travel group warns: Corporate data at risk from laptop searches at border
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The group is worried that corporate data could be downloaded by agents, leading to potential security breaches and the exposure of information that is supposed to be private. Among the devices that could be searched by border agents are cell phones, handhelds, digital cameras and USB storage devices.

(目前法院案例)允許海關官員任意搜查並且下載保留個人筆記電腦裡的資料.除了個人電腦, 其他電子產品如手機, PDA類, 數位相機以及USB儲存設備也包括在內



No suspicion needed to search laptops at U.S. borders, says Ninth Circuit
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The case involves a man named Michael Arnold, who was arrested in 2005 on charges of transporting child pornography on his laptop. According to a description of the case in court records, Arnold was returning home from a three-week vacation in the Philippines in July 2005, when he was pulled aside for secondary customs screening at Los Angeles International Airport.

A customs officer who was inspecting Arnold's luggage asked him to start his computer and had it examined by colleagues who found several images of what they believed were child pornography on the computer and in several storage devices that Arnold was carrying with him.

A grand jury later charged Arnold with knowingly transporting child pornography in interstate and foreign commerce, and for knowingly possessing a hard drive and CD-ROMs containing more than one image of child pornography.

根據2005年洛杉磯國際機場的案例:海關隨意搜查從菲律賓返國的Michael Arnold行旅中的筆記電腦,和光碟一起發現儲存兒童色情圖片.最高法院推翻Michael Arnold的上訴並指海關(或是國土安全部)可以在關卡隨意檢查而不需搜索令


"We are satisfied that reasonable suspicion is not needed for customs officials to search a laptop or other personal electronic storage devices at the border," noted Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, who wrote the opinion of the three-judge panel.