≈ Traveling like it’s 1984
De overheid mag je laptop en andere elektronische gadgets in beslag nemen wanneer je de Verenigde Staten binnenkomt. Zonder reden en voor onbepaalde tijd. De Amerikaanse overheid mag zelfs een kopie nemen van de gegevens op je laptop, iPod, etc.
Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.
Tijd voor een West Wing quote — The Short List (S01EP09)
Its not about abortion. Its about the next 20 years. Twenties and thirties, it was
the role of government. Fifties and sixties, it was civil rights. The next two decades,
its gonna be privacy. Im talking about the Internet. Im talking about cellphones.
Im talking about health records, and whos gay and whos not. And moreover, in a
country born on a will to be free, what could be more fundamental than this?