More and more people travel with laptops, BlackBerrys and cellphones.
The US government’s laptop-equals-suitcase position is raising red flags.
… her cellphone was taken from her purse.
… A few months earlier in the same airport, a tech engineer returning from a business trip to London objected when a federal agent asked him to type [...]
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