You mean: another reason not to have international meetings anywhere. US citizens will be subject to the same rules when returning home from Copenhagen, as will many of the people who come through the US on the way from and to other places in North America. Note also that encrypting your stuff isn't a useful solution, since you can be denied entry if you don't cough up your passwords when asked. I suppose you could say you didn't have passwords for some stuff, but that seems to be a great way of having a lot of trouble getting back into the US. (Even though I don't think there is a legal requirement that you not carry encrypted messages across the border.) If you want to try being my data mule, email me and I'll send you a large chunk of encrypted data (purely innocuous data--trust me!) to try bringing across the border, but no password. Of course, the natural response is to travel with either no data devices or with a clean laptop. (Actually, given the increase in baggage fees by US carriers, I suspect most of us will be traveling naked soon enough.) It's probably a good idea not to have your most sensitive information on a laptop that you are traveling with anyway, and I often travel without my primary laptop for this reason. Cleaning the other devices (mobile, etc.) is a bit more bothersome. If you don't mind the US government knowing your contacts, that's not a worry, I suppose. Oh, and did you pay for every one of those MP3s and video files and can you prove it? If you are traveling with a clean machine, you'll store your information, encrypted of course, online and download once you arrive back to the US. Sure, the government still gets a look (would be naive to believe otherwise), but least then they have to put in a few million cycles of decryption work to find out you have a passion for ABBA. Alex On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Julie Cohen <jec@law.georgetown.edu> wrote:
Dear all,
If you are traveling to/from the US, please take note of the following. (Yet another reason not to have the annual meetings here...)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR200808 0103030.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
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