{"id":128544,"date":"2015-11-04T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/your-laptop-is-not-just-a-container-legally-at-least.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T17:47:14","slug":"your-laptop-is-not-just-a-container-legally-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/your-laptop-is-not-just-a-container-legally-at-least.html","title":{"rendered":"Your laptop is not just a &quot;container&quot; (legally, at least)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ruled that laptops are more than just crates and cargo that can be willy-nilly seized and searched &#8212; without a warrant &#8212; in the border zone or at international airports. Rather, based on SCOTUS precedent, they can be presumed to hold so much private information that a warrant must be obtained to take them.<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s a good thing. The feds have long used seizure and inspection precedents at border crossings to take phones, drives, and computers for further extensive searches, particularly in cases where they did not have enough probable cause to get a warrant if the device were not crossing a border. That specfic legalistic trickery has been, for the moment, quashed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/05\/warrantless-airport-search-of-laptop-cannot-be-justified-judge-rules'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/HkEY6I_8IJM6pOs0yvbLHnut-aLfOibfxZsoi0OZIzzA9TQvhId68E7ak6erjgynHFxkD4wfa09_KmNJLQ2vHKhNRQIkvXP4gFaE2SP9dXoWZIUhNEV43L5ExFg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/05\/warrantless-airport-search-of-laptop-cannot-be-justified-judge-rules'>Warrantless airport seizure of laptop &ldquo;cannot be justified,&rdquo; judge rules | Ars Technica<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFeds said a laptop is simply a &#8220;container&#8221; that can be searched without warrant.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/2NUBiJpP9Wv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has ruled that laptops are more than just crates and cargo that can be willy-nilly seized and searched &#8212; without a warrant &#8212; in the border zone or at international airports. Rather, based on SCOTUS precedent, they can be presumed to hold so much private information that a warrant must be obtained to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/your-laptop-is-not-just-a-container-legally-at-least.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your laptop is not just a &quot;container&quot; (legally, at least)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133100,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/19\/the-supreme-court-unanimously-rules-cell-phone-searches-require-a-warrant.html","url_meta":{"origin":128544,"position":0},"title":"The Supreme Court unanimously rules cell phone searches require a warrant","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Mar-17 5:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's rare you get SCOTUS ruling unanimously on anything of major import, especially related to civil rights, but they did here:'\u201cModern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans \u2018the privacies of life,\u2019\u201d Chief Justice John\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134824,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/use-stingray-devices-without-warrant-declared-unconstitutional.html","url_meta":{"origin":128544,"position":1},"title":"Use of Stingray devices without a warrant declared unconstitutional","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Sep-17 7:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the disadvantages of a more connected world -- a world where those connections are not just fun, but a critical part of daily life -- is that connections make it easier to track you in various ways. 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