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Nanny State

Erase Your Porn

Radley Balko | 4.23.2008 10:55 AM

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The Ninth Circuit becomes the second federal appeals court to rule that border agents can search your laptop without probable cause. The ruling wasn't surprising, but it is unfortunate. Probably good for the external drive and web hosting industries, though.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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