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Originally Posted by Phaneuf3
The privacy concerns with a laptop are much, much different.
For example, what if its a doctor's or a lawyer's confidential files? There's tons of very very valid reasons to prevent a boarder guard from going snooping through personal files to try to find some pirated mp3s or something as equally stupid.
You're not going to stop anything distasteful from entering your country if it can be stored in an electronic format by searching laptops at airports. You can simply hook up to the internet and download it once you're in the country. This type of boarder security strategy is ineffective for anything other than catching the very rare complete idiot doing some relatively minor crimes and harassing normal folks and invading their privacy.
IMO, the negatives far outweigh the positives.
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I might have some paper files in my luggage that are confidential too. I could also just buy drugs in the United States once I got there. No sense searching my luggage for drugs.
I do agree that only the idiots get caught though.