"Catherine Crump, the ACLU lawyer who first requested the report, said the study was the first detailed explanation she had seen of why the government believes it doesn’t need a reason to open a laptop or storage device and download files for further review. She described as inadequate the government’s argument that imposing a legal threshold to perform such searches would lead to lawsuits. “That’s just not good enough,” Crump said. “A purely suspicionless search opens the door to ethnic profiling.” Since the 2011 report, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has objected to searching electronic devices without reasonable suspicion."
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:43:17 +0000
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