Another Lost Liberty

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The Department of Homeland Security recently released this gem about their policy regarding the search and seizure of laptops and other electronic devices, "Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed." The policy also includes their ability to share any information obtained with other agencies as well as the right to send your computer to non-government agencies for translation and things of that nature. Now while the seizure of laptops without a warrant at the boarder might not seem like that big a deal, its not far from the government claiming the right to tap any and all international communication because importation of information from a laptop is no different then sharing information over a VPN. On top of this several European government are in the works of passing legislation that will allow airport security to search laptops for pirated software and songs.

I know many of you will say that this is for the greater good and the government is only doing this to protect us. But who is regulating the government? When you are no long allowed to freely share information with others without the fear of big brother looking over your shoulder things start to look a little bleak. Along with all the recent news about net neutrality it looks like the age of unregulated internet is coming to an end.