Bill aims to protect travelers’ privacy
October 3, 2008 by Personal Liberty News Desk
Legislation introduced by three lawmakers this week aims to create stronger measures to protect the privacy of those who are traveling across borders.
The Travelers’ Privacy Protection Act states would require agents to be able to prove they have reasonable suspicion of illegal activity before they search people’s laptops, smartphones and documents.
Recently, the Department of Homeland Security published its guidance on the matter, raising concerns among many who support civil liberties. Currently, border inspectors do not need to have a reason to inspect and copy a traveler’s electronic and paper documents.
Representative Russ Feingold, who co-wrote the new bill, said that "most Americans would be shocked" if they knew what powers the government had to search and copy their personal emails, documents and photographs.
"Focusing our limited law enforcement resources on law-abiding Americans who present no basis for suspicion does not make us any safer and is a gross violation of privacy," he commented.
The bill would also place limits on the length of time that an electronic device can be separated from its owner. 
Privacy laws can be used against you or for you however the power that be wants . I know of a man that his medical tests showed he had a very strong unprescibed drug in his Blood , But privacy laws prevented this test from being exposed , They didnt tell the man whom was suffering severe pain , they didn’t tell his doctors that wanted to help him , for more than two months . Finally they told him a couple of days before he died . I think this was more of a 1st amendment question , The powers that be , did not want this man to talk anymore
The mans name was Slobodan Milosevic , He destroyed NATO in their own court .
Last week some kids had hung a stuffed monkey and this was called a racial hate crime ., If so ? why is evreybody now against us scandinavians ? It could be a insult to all of us dumber people . I think even calling a hanging stuffed monkey a racial hate crime . is itself the most hatefull crime .