I did a little research on the U.S. Constitution and as it turns out, it doesn't provide any rights to privacy. The Bill of Rights on the other hand does. Amendment IV gives us the right to “be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Now that that’s been said, I just read an article from www.news.com.au, which is an online Australian publication. It basically says that our federal government leaked documents about negotiating a treaty proposing to search iPods in airport customs.
When they instituted the new security measures at our airports, it was necessary. They had to flush out any threats and keep us safe, but piracy of music and movies has nothing to do with security. It just allows the government to kill two birds with one stone, by searching for pirates and terrorists at the same time. I don’t know about any other governments, but in our Bill of Rights we're supposed to be guarded against this kind of thing. Unless the security guards can prove that there’s death threats or bomb threats on any of the iPods, they shouldn’t have the right to search them.
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