DHS Watchdog: ‘Intuition and Hunch’ Are Enough to Search Your Gadgets at Border

The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that “intuition and hunch” are among the primary reasons why it is “inadvisable” to establish constitutional safeguards protecting travelers’ electronics from being searched for any

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/border-gadget-searches/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Threat+Level%29

The full report sheds more light on the rationale, and comes as electronic devices have become virtual extensions of ourselves, housing everything from e-mail to instant-message chats to photos and our papers and effects: