Timeline for Laptop Searches by Customs - UK and US
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| May 19, 2019 at 20:37 | comment | added | Hilmar | Seizure and search is legal and theoretically possible but it is exceedingly rare and blown way out of proportion by the media and some companies. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 13:10 | history | protected | phoog | ||
| Oct 17, 2013 at 3:47 | comment | added | Rudy Gunawan | I agree that it does not make sense. however that company is one of the largest IT company and that was the policy. Putting data online is another option, but you can't put everything online ( mobile broadband is expensive ) | |
| Oct 16, 2013 at 13:57 | comment | added | Relaxed | @RudyGunawan But you would still carry it with you as well? It does not seem to make much sense. Having sensitive data online possibly would however. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 10:18 | history | edited | Dirty-flow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2012 at 5:48 | answer | added | Molomby | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 17:00 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 20, 2012 at 14:23 | answer | added | john | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 12:55 | history | edited | Ankur Banerjee |
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| Nov 20, 2011 at 23:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTravel/status/138396890990510080 | ||
| Nov 9, 2011 at 3:14 | comment | added | Rudy Gunawan | Last time my company instructed that I should able to remove my laptop hardisk and put it back once I cleared the immigration. :) | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 19:35 | history | edited | Mark Mayo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2011 at 19:23 | answer | added | victoriah | timeline score: 15 | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 17:25 | comment | added | victoriah | May be interesting: nytimes.com/2008/01/07/us/… AFAIK the UK (and indeed pretty much every government in the world) has the right to search your computer for whatever reason when entering the country. Given the amount of laptops that pass through airports every day though, it is extremely unlikely that they would scan yours randomly, unless you gave them some suspicion. | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 14:43 | history | edited | hippietrail |
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| Nov 8, 2011 at 14:38 | history | asked | Andrew Christianson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |