Yes, I think the US policy allows materials to be retained for a minimum
of two weeks. The authorities were forced to issue more public guidance
which is at:
http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/travel/admissability/search_authorit
y.ctt/search_authority.pdf
Some people who travel with laptops to places where It and storage media
can be seized are beginning to put it into insurance policies I believe.
Laurence
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I was dining in Philadelphia with an American colleague last night and
he told me that he no longer travels with his laptop because the United
States now has the right to seize computers entering the country.
Wendy
Laurence Bebbington wrote ..
> Colleagues may find the attached interesting...and worrying!
>
> http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/08/20/231915/international
> -t ravellers-face-computer-searches-at-uk.htm
>
> Laurence Bebbington
> Faculty Team Leader (Social Sciences, Law and Education)/IS Copyright
> Officer Information services The University of Nottingham University
> Park Campus Nottingham
> NG7 2RD
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