The Department of Homeland Security claims that it has the right to take away a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device, keep it indefinitely, and share the data with anybody they want, without any suspicion of wrongdoing.
House Resolution 6702, by Ron Paul and Eliot Engel, would require the Department to show reasonable suspicion of criminal activity before it could search and seize electronic gadgets from travelers.
Read about the DHS and HR 6702 here, here here and here.
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