Court: Feds Can't Just Grab Someone's Laptop at the Border

Re:Court: Feds Can't Just Grab Someone's Laptop at the Border by schoen on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @04:23PM (#10119194)

I also heard that LAX used to have sterile transit for a particular pair of flights (I think operated by the same airline).

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Re:Court: Feds Can't Just Grab Someone's Laptop at the Border by mikeash on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:41PM (#10120179)

I imagine it might come down to how much money the airline is willing to put into the necessary infrastructure. Paranoid security changes after 2001 might also have shut that sort of thing down.

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Re:Court: Feds Can't Just Grab Someone's Laptop at the Border by schoen on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:54PM (#10120225)

Yeah, maybe an airline can say to the airport/CBP "we'll pay to rent a lounge/corridor/gates at this airport in this terminal for a sterile transit option between our flights or our partners' flights because some passengers want that" and maybe the airport/CBP can approve the proposal. (Maybe non-U.S. passport holders will still require an ESTA, but not a CBP examination?)

I think the specific option at LAX was post-2001, but you had to be on a specific pair of flights to take advantage of it. (I didn't do it, I just read about it on FlyerTalk and forgot the details.)

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