After two of its executives had their laptops and other electronic devices seized and searched at U.S. airports in May, BAE Systems PLC -- the U.K.-based defense and aerospace giant -- found itself ...

A lot of business travelers are walking around with laptops that contain private corporate information that their employers really do not want outsiders to see. Until recently, their biggest concern ...

How Americans end up getting their laptops searched at the border still isn’t entirely clear. The Homeland Security Department said it should be able to act on a hunch if someone seems suspicious. But ...

The days of simply traveling to another country are gone. With ever-growing surveillance, suspicion of wrongdoing is no longer a requirement for invasive searching. When traveling to other countries, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has ruled that the government’s search of a traveling businessman’s laptop at the California border was unreasonable and violated his privacy. In an opinion posted ...

The case of David Miranda got a lot of attention around the world after UK authorities were accused of abusing an anti-terrorism law to evade the normal constitutional restrains on police power and ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit demanding that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) release details of its policy that allows the agency to search travelers’ laptops ...

Senators dispute the government's right to open laptops, read documents and e-mails, and examine the Web sites visited, all without any suspicion of wrongdoing Two U.S. senators called on U.S. Customs ...

<P>One of the few things that all Americans can agree on these days is that we need more secure borders. But does that mean when entering the country we must all submit to a search not only of what's ...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal agents have been rummaging through travelers' personal ...

The prospect of warrantless laptop searches at border crossings in the U.S. has companies reviewing their travel and computing policies. These searches can allow access to any data mobile lawyers ...

Two U.S. senators called on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to back off its assertion that it can search laptops and other electronic devices owned by U.S. citizens returning to the country ...