9th Cir. rules laptops subject to search by airport customs
Mike McKee reports on the Recorder:
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that border control agents who found child porn on a traveler’s laptop didn’t violate the man’s right to be free from unreasonable searches.
“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,” Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain wrote.