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New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices

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Re: New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices

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This should serve as a reminder to everyone to donate/support EFF and ACLU, as two of the very few organizations that watches for our rights.

It is also a reminder that as we get more numb to issues like this, it gets worse.

It is probably time to call your representatives and raise your voice.

Re: New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices

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post #6

This should serve as a reminder to everyone to donate/support EFF and ACLU, as two of the very few organizations that watches for our rights. It is also a reminder that as we get more numb to issues like this, it gets worse. It is probably time to call your representatives and raise your voice.

Because calling paid-for representatives has such a strong record of success over the last decade of human rights erosion.

Talking to your representative is roughly as useful in curbing these things, as doing nothing at all. What's the real solution?

Re: New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices

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Is this the United States of America or Nazi Germany circa 1930? Anyone with malicious or criminal intent can simply not carry data that implicates them over the border, so just what is the point of this?

Would you please not post ideological rants to HN, regardless of how correct the underlying position? Doing that is against the site guidelines, and we'd appreciate it if you'd read those and take the spirit of this site to heart: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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