"These highly intrusive government searches into a traveler`s most private information, without any reasonable suspicion, are a threat to the most basic privacy rights guaranteed in the Constitution," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney with the ACLU First Amendment Working Group.
"Searching or retaining a traveler`s personal information – especially the vast stores of information contained in a laptop or other electronic storage device – could also have a chilling effect on the free exchange of ideas and beliefs."
Crump will be a speaker at the ACLU-VT’s June 29 conference in South Burlington on “Thought and Expression in a Changing World.”
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