Homeland Security Approves Their Right To Search and Seize Your Electronics Without Sus... - 0 views
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the Department of Homeland Security quietly released a strangely worded document reaffirming their own right to search and seize your electronics without suspicion or cause, anywhere along the United States border (which they define as 100 miles in from the border – an area twice as long as Rhode Island). In reality, this is nothing new, Homeland Security been doing this since at least 2009
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For now, the business community has figured out a way around having the government search and confiscate devices with company secrets – give their employees blank laptops, and put the important information in the cloud.
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Courts around the country are struggling to decide how to balance security with privacy.
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Since 2009 Homeland Security has been searching and seizing electronics without suspicion or cause anywhere along the United States border. The business community has figured out how to get around the government searches by providing their employees with blank laptops and putting important information in the cloud. It has now been 25 years since Ronald Reagan signed the digital privacy protection laws which in today's rapidly advancing technology era these protections are inadequate.