[tlug] government getting ready to inspect your iPod, laptop without warrant

["Jim Maricondo" <crazeduser@example.com>]

Slightly off topic, but I think this issue concerns us all.

 

This is a crazy new law being proposed which will give border guards and security personnel the right to inspect the contents of your laptop, iPod, cell phone for content that infringes on copyright laws (presumably music and movies):

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/ACTA_trade_agreement_negotiation_lacks_transparency

 

Apparently they already have the right to look at anything on your laptop in the pretense of checking for child pornography.  But is it next step to being able to inspect anything without any warrant or probable cause?  You decide.  It's amazing that this type of thing is even being considered much less this close to become a law!

 

 -Jim