Hands Off My Laptop Customs and Border Patrol at the Department of Homeland Security was just given the green light to search and seize laptops at the border, without probable cause, by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They can deny entry to anyone who refuses to give up their laptops and password. This is an affront to our progressive values of privacy and protection from unwarranted search and seizure. Join us in demanding that Customs and Border Patrol conduct and publish a Privacy Impact Assessment on this policy. People have a right to privacy. If the government is to limit our privacy, it has the responsibility to understand the impact of its actions, share that information with us, and implement needed safeguards. Write to Customs and Border Patrol and demand that they conduct and publish a Privacy Impact Assessment. Call on them to implement meaningful safeguards for our privacy.





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Protecting the nation at the borders is very important, but so is our constitutional right to privacy. Even though the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided in USA v. Arnold to allow Customs and Border Protection to search and seize laptop computers and demand passwords and encryption keys, it is imperative that you immediately conduct and publish a Privacy Impact Assessment before continuing your current laptop search policy, followed by the implementation of meaningful safeguards to protect the privacy of American citizens. Clearly, search and seizure of laptops at the border without probable cause poses a high risk to Americans’ right to privacy. A Privacy Impact Assessment is necessary to identify these risks to privacy and allow you to revise the policy so that it keeps both our borders and our right of privacy secure. In order to secure both the borders and our privacy, it is essential that you conduct and publish a Privacy Impact Assessment immediately, followed by the implementation of meaningful safeguards.

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