The arrest and nine-hour detention of journalist Gleen Greenwald's partner at Heathrow Airport has driven home the potential for abuse of anti-terrorist laws. As reported yesterday, David Miranda was stopped and questioned by police under a rarely-used British terrorism statute that allows people entering the country to be stopped without reasonable suspicion. According to government figures, only 3 in every 10,000 people are stopped under the law, and of those, 97 percent are released within an hour. But Miranda was held for the full nine hours allowed under the law, after which police confiscated his phone, laptop, camera, and other electronics. The New York Times reports that among the items seized were encrypted flash drives...
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