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78 Miss. L.J. 381 (2008-2009)
Combating Terrorism in the Digital Age: A Clash of Doctrines: The Frontier of Sovereignty - National Security and Citizenship - The Fourth Amendment - Technology and Shifting Legal Borders

handle is hein.journals/mislj78 and id is 407 raw text is: COMBATING TERRORISM IN THE DIGITAL
AGE: A CLASH OF DOCTRINES: THE
FRONTIER OF SOVEREIGNTY-NATIONAL
SECURITY AND CITIZENSHIP-THE
FOURTH AMENDMENT-TECHNOLOGY
AND SHIFTING LEGAL BORDERS
Harvey Rishikof*
I guarantee you this: neither the drafters of the Fourth
Amendment, nor the Supreme Court when it crafted the
'border search exception,' ever dreamed that tens of thousands
of Americans would cross the border every day, carrying with
them the equivalent of a full library of their most personal
information.... If you asked most Americans whether the
government has the right to look through their luggage for
contraband when they are returning from an overseas trip,
they would tell you yes, the government has that right. But if
you asked them whether the government has a right to open
their laptops, read their documents and e-mails, look at their
photographs, and examine the websites they have visited, all
without any suspicion of wrongdoing, I think those same
Americans would say that the government absolutely has no
right to do that.... Ideally, Fourth Amendment jurisprudence
would evolve to protect Americans' privacy in this once
unfathomable situation. But if the courts can't offer that
* Professor of Law, former Chair, Department of National Security Strategy, National
War College. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not
reflect the official policy or position of the National Defense University, the National
War College, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

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