There is a border exception to the search clause in the Constitution. If you
are on a border they can search and seize as much as they want. Including
examining the contents of computers. I doubt that extends much inland from
the border tho.
BK
""Only the print contains the artist's meaning and message." "
----- Ansel Adams
J Bryan Krämer North Florida, USA
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blog at: http://www.photoburner.net
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 09:39, photoartgal <cindy@cindymcintyre.com> wrote:
> Here in Far West Texas there are Border Patrol checkpoints, and when you
> roll down your window to talk to them they stick their heads inside the
> vehicle to check it out, and a dog is walked around the vehicle to sniff for
> drugs. The UPS guy told me that his truck had to be scanned by a portable
> X-ray machine (in a truck)recently, which he'd never had to do before. I
> wondered if that would ruin digital media but a search online seems to
> indicate x-rays do not harm digital files in cameras, computers, etc. But
> magnetism does. I don't know... It's annoying, but (snark alert) I
> suppose it's the "price of freedom."
>
>
> > But I can assure you that the cops have the right to stop you whenever
> they
> > want and to do a safety/rules of the road compliance inspection of your
> > vehicle at any time.
>
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