Comment on Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rulesComments−hackercurious11yI wonder if this will actually stop unjustified/unwarranted search and seizure at US borders.−tptacek11yIt will not; the border search exception is as old as the Constitution.−ascagnel_11yUnlikely; the article notes that the laptop was shipped 150 miles and the actual search took place far from the border, after any immediate risk had passed, not that the search itself was unjustified or unwarranted.
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I wonder if this will actually stop unjustified/unwarranted search and seizure at US borders.
It will not; the border search exception is as old as the Constitution.
Unlikely; the article notes that the laptop was shipped 150 miles and the actual search took place far from the border, after any immediate risk had passed, not that the search itself was unjustified or unwarranted.