We’ve discussed, a hardly any times, the issues with border patrol/customs officials in the US <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090828/0410086035.shtml”>searching laptops</a> at the border. The cause it doesn’t constitute much sense is that the purpose of border patrol is to constitute certain nothing terrible gets into a nation, however the content on your laptop can easily get into the nation via the internet, rather than at the border. And much larger concern, of direction, is that human beings store everything on their laptops. If you’re packing your suitcase for a trip somewhere, you pack only the things you desire to capture. Everything you bring is effectively “opt-in.” However, on your laptop, you already have everything. If anything, you might (though I doubt many human beings do) delete some stuff to avoid having it searched. In other words, unlike your suitcase, the data on your laptop is more of an “opt-outside” situation.
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Well, it appears that down in Australia, they’ve taken border laptop concerns to a fresh and ridiculous level. <a href=”http://idle.slashdot.org/tale/10/10/20/1410215/Australian-Visitors-Must-Declare-Illegal-Porn-To-Customs-Officers?from=twitter” target=”_blank”>Slashdot</a> points us to claims for Australian officials that travelers entering Australia should <a href=”http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/visitors-to-declare-illegal-porn-to-customs-officers/tale-e6frfq80-1225940810081″ target=”_blank”>have to declare all porn on their laptops</a>. After some public outcry, that original claim was downgraded to “all illegal porn,” however as some human beings are still pointing outside, it’s not at all clear what constitutes “illegal porn” in Australia, and it’s a violation of privacy to demand that travelers reveal their laptop porn. Again, I’m at a loss as to how this really helps with anything. It’s not like having human beings declare it at the border will do anything to stop “illegal” porn. It just seems like an simple path to have something else to hold over human beings.<br /><br /><a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/17152311516/visiting-australia-constitute-certain-you-tell-the-customs-officials-about-the-porn-on-your-dense-propel.shtml”>Permalink</a> | <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/17152311516/visiting-australia-constitute-certain-you-tell-the-customs-officials-about-the-porn-on-your-dense-propel.shtml#comments”>Comments</a> | <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101020/17152311516/visiting-australia-constitute-certain-you-tell-the-customs-officials-about-the-porn-on-your-dense-propel.shtml?op=sharethis”>Email This Tale</a><br />
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