Do you travel out of the country with your laptop computer? If so, better back up your files before you return.
As a Washington Post article tells us today, the feds have decided that they "may take a traveler's laptop 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."
Yes, you read that right: They can do this without any suspicion of wrongdoing.
In at least one case, a device was confiscated and held for months.
Are we living in a police state?
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