U.S. Federal Agents Given Power To Take Your Laptop, iPod

Washington (dbTechno) - The Department of Homeland Security has revealed new border search policies, stating that federal agents now have the power to take your laptop, or any other media device such as an iPod, for no reason.

Federal agents in the U.S. now have the power to take these devices from you for a period of time, even if they have no suspicion at all that you did something wrong.

The whole idea behind this new push is to help prevent terrorism in the U.S. and around the world.

Officials, once they take your laptop or media device, can then share the content on it with other agencies to try and figure out what type of data is on it and such.

These new policies have gone into effect starting on July 16th, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Many are shocked by these new policies, calling them an abuse of power, invasion of privacy, etc.

This is due to the fact that there is no protection on personal data of citizens, including medical or financial records.