Any Reason To Suspend Our Rights: Suspicionless Seizures Of Electronics Near US Borders
David Kravets posts at Wired:

The Department of Homeland Security's civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation's borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever -- all in the name of national security.

The DHS, which secures the nation's border, in 2009 announced that it would conduct a "Civil Liberties Impact Assessment" of its suspicionless search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic devices "within 120 days." More than three years later, the DHS office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties published a two-page executive summary of its findings.

"We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits," the executive summary said.

That Constitution...it's so ANNOYING.

Also from Kravets' post:

By the way, the government contends the Fourth-Amendment-Free Zone stretches 100 miles inland from the nation's actual border.

A comment from a guy calling himself Tom Berry at WIRED:

It's one thing to be searched crossing the border. Its another to claim a 100 mile "Fourth Amendment Exclusion Zone" My answer is to simply refuse to hand over electronics unless they have a warrant and be sure to record the incident if possible. I never imagined when I was 20 years old than in 30 years the United States would be sliding toward a Orwellian quasi- totalitarian state.

Check the map to see if you're living in a Constitution-free zone.

via Jay J. Hector