Better flush your smut conveyance folder before heading home from Tijuana , guy , because the DHS can and will find it , according to a composition by theWashington Post . They also have permit to take your laptop computer or any other electronic gimmick to an off - web site localisation indefinitely , and share its content with other delegacy or individual entities ( read : anyone ) for interlingual rendition , decryption , or “ other reasons . ” And it ’s not just your laptop you should be careful about , unfortunately .
The seizable items list is almost a formalities , since it basically means “ everything : ”
The policies incubate “ any twist capable of storing information in digital or analogue form , ” including hard drive , flash drives , cellular telephone telephone set , iPods , pager , beeper , and video and audio tape . They also extend “ all papers and other written documentation , ” including books , brochure and “ written materials commonly denote to as ‘ air hole scrap ’ or ‘ pocket bedding . ’ “
tick to viewGranted , I would not be too surprised to bump out that most country with semi - hardened boundary line have like policies . AndHomeland Securityclaims that the rule of thumb for information seizures at the border have “ long been in place ” but come up to light last calendar month because of “ public interestingness in the topic ” ( which does n’t make it any less of a bighearted deal ) . Still , it ’s a little Iron Curtain - esque , do n’t you recall ? US senators like Russell Feingold are understandably pissed , and hoping to soften the policies through legislation . [ Washington Post ]
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