Tell The Bush Administration: Hands Off My Laptop

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/hands-off-laptops/

Tell The Bush Administration: Hands Off My Laptop

Our guest blogger, Peter Swire, is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and served as the Clinton administration’s Chief Counselor for Privacy, working on encryption policy and other issues.

Today the Washington Post ran a front-page story on a topic previously reported by ThinkProgress. Homeland Security is telling customs agents they can search, and take, travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices without needing any reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

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What to do next? The Post reports that Senator Russ Feingold, who called the recent hearing, intends to introduce legislation to require reasonable suspicion and bar racial profiling for laptop searches. In addition, join the “Hands Off My Laptop” online campaign, which has already sent over 20,000 messages to CBP about the need for privacy protections for laptops.

HANDS OFF MY LAPTOP:
http://www2.americanprogress.org/t/288/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6239

[Ian David]

1. This is how they caught "Klutzo The Conservative Christian Clown"

Go ahead and google it.

[babylonsister]

2. I'm such a sap; dutifully googled. Klutzo is no longer with us.

And yes, the feds got into his 'puter.


http://www.truecrimeweblog.com/2007/10/klutzo-clown-and-his-international.html

[babylonsister]

3. All you have to do is sign and send; very easy! nt