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new law at us customs /border patrol

  • 28-12-2008 11:57pm
    #1
    what_car
    Closed Accounts Posts: 674 ✭✭✭


    has anyone heard anything bout the new law in the usa, where upon arriving at a border control, they can take your laptop away? and examine it, and in some cases could take 10-15 days to get it back?


    see this

    http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/07/tsa-confiscating-lap.html


    i have nothing worthwhile on my laptop, but its the sure, hassle and time wasting associated with it...




    just reading the above link, would put anyone off bringing their expensive laptop to the usa!


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  • #2
    nava
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭nava


    what_car wrote: »
    has anyone heard anything bout the new law in the usa, where upon arriving at a border control, they can take your laptop away? and examine it, and in some cases could take 10-15 days to get it back?


    see this

    http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/07/tsa-confiscating-lap.html


    i have nothing worthwhile on my laptop, but its the sure, hassle and time wasting associated with it...




    just reading the above link, would put anyone off bringing their expensive laptop to the usa!


    Is been like that for a while, in the company I work we got a mail about it about a year ago or even longer. Mainly it was to say if you got stopped to cooperate with them and give them all info they need.


  • #3
    what_car
    Closed Accounts Posts: 674 ✭✭✭what_car


    nava wrote: »
    Is been like that for a while, in the company I work we got a mail about it about a year ago or even longer. Mainly it was to say if you got stopped to cooperate with them and give them all info they need.
    in the link i posted,above, some company laptops were taken for inspection, and never returned!...


  • #4
    nava
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭nava


    what_car wrote: »
    if you read the link i posted, some company laptops were taken for inspection, and never returned!...



    Sorry I thought the post was about the law, not about laptops not returned.

    In my case it would be a company laptop so no problem if they take it and they keep it and get a new laptop on my return but will do a back-up before I go. Wonder who keeps those laptops.


  • #5
    what_car
    Closed Accounts Posts: 674 ✭✭✭what_car


    nava wrote: »
    Sorry I thought the post was about the law, not about laptops not returned.

    In my case it would be a company laptop so no problem if they take it and they keep it and get a new laptop on my return but will do a back-up before I go. Wonder who keeps those laptops.

    duno.. but if its a nice expensive personal laptop, id worry......


  • #6
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    It's not a new law.

    Previously discussed here http://wwww.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=56778555


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  • #7
    what_car
    Closed Accounts Posts: 674 ✭✭✭what_car


    BuffyBot wrote: »
    It's not a new law.

    Previously discussed here http://wwww.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=56778555

    i know its not new, but some people never got their laptops back! ffs

    land of the free, ha ha.


  • #8
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    Thread locked. Already covered in the thread Buffybot has linked to.


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