The following was posted on a computer listserve.
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If you bring a computer or disk or drive into the US, the border
agents can demand your passwords and keep these items and/or you
until they have read everything they want. This is now legal whether or not there is any basis for suspicion of anything. This includes recovery of deleted Internet caches and files. It can even include passwords for e-mail accounts where the e-mail is stored only on a server in the US and has never been over the border. I presume it would even include your iPod in your car trunk or in your checked baggage or in your pocket.
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If you bring a computer or disk or drive into the US, the border
agents can demand your passwords and keep these items and/or you
until they have read everything they want. This is now legal whether or not there is any basis for suspicion of anything. This includes recovery of deleted Internet caches and files. It can even include passwords for e-mail accounts where the e-mail is stored only on a server in the US and has never been over the border. I presume it would even include your iPod in your car trunk or in your checked baggage or in your pocket.
