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Homeland Security Still Plans To Search Laptops At Borders With No Probable
Cause
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| Um... right, but, again, the contents of the a computer laptop can easily
| enter the United States via the internet with no border control process
| whatsoever. The whole claim that this has anything to do with screening
| materials entering the US is totally bogus.
|
| On top of this, the other thing that's not at all clear is how far
| the "search" can go. With a growing number of "cloud" based services in use,
| many of which act as if they're local, can the border patrol search those as
| well? For example, I use Jungledisk, which gives me a virtual drive that
| shows up in my file system as if it were a local hard drive, even though it's
| hosted in some data center somewhere. It looks like a local drive... but it's
| not actually on my laptop. Would border patrol have the right to search that,
| even though the contents of that drive are not actually traveling across the
| border?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080801/0310141861.shtml
Recent:
HADOPI Law Passed - by 12 Votes to 4
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| It is difficult to believe in democracy in which we aim to live and write.
| After 41 hours and 40 minutes of passionate discussion on the text, there
| remained only a handful of courageous members around 22:45 Thursday evening
| when the National Assembly decided, on the instructions of the Secretary of
| State Roger Karoutchi to pass immediately to vote on the Creation and
| Internet law, which was not expected before next week. One exception, which
| allows you to hide the large number of UMP deputies who would have abstained
| if the vote had been, as tradition dictates, after the government issues
| Tuesday night. Thus wished Nicolas Sarkozy.
|
| [...]
|
| So one of the most important, and contentious piece of legislation in recent
| years is passed by trickery. In this way, those pushing this law have shown
| their true colours and their contempt for the democratic process.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/04/hadopi-law-passed-by-12-votes-to-4.html
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