Monday, April 23, 2007

CANADA; SERGIO KARAS WITES ABOUT BORDER SECURITY AND PRIVACY

Visalaw International lawyer Sergio Karas published an article entitled " Privacy at Risk: Can your laptop be searched at the border?" in the current issue of The national, the magazine of the Canadian Bar Association. The article disucsses recent cases from US courts which held that border security agents have wide latitude to search the data contained in laptop computers and electronic devices at a port of entry.