You are a hard-working lawyer. You have just finished a long trial, deal or other matter and decide to take a vacation. You jet off to a tropical locale for some R&R. Of course, through compulsion or desire, you have to stay plugged into things going on at the firm and with your clients, so you bring along your work laptop, your BlackBerry or iPhone, and your iPad or e-reader to cover all your bases electronically. Through this planning, you can enjoy yourself while keeping things under control work-wise and manage to talk (or email, as the case may be) a client down from a precarious ledge with your helpful and timely counsel. Thanks to modern technology, you can handle these crises from anywhere. On the plane ride back home from your sunny getaway, you scroll through your virtual inbox, confident that no nasty surprises await you back at the office.

Then, a funny thing happens on your way to baggage check — whether due to your dress-down appearance, your demeanor while standing on line, a random check or the fact that you simply meet “the profile” — and you get stopped at customs. The Customs and Border Protection officer asks to see your bags and decides to confiscate your laptop and iPad for further inspection. End result: You don’t get your devices back for almost two months and you have no idea how many government agencies saw, inspected, and/or analyzed their contents.

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