Government Wants Access to Your Laptop

This is not good news.

The Obama Administration is currently negotiating the ACTA Agreement with several international partners.

The proposed agreement would empower security officials at airports and other international borders to conduct random ex officio searches of laptops, MP3 players, and cellular phones for illegally downloaded or "ripped" music and movies.

The ACTA Agreement is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement which is an attempt to enforce intellectual property rights worldwide. The legal framework to emerge is currently unknown.