US border guards: watch out, they have Google
October 26, 2007
Oh dear - some more bad PR for US Homeland Security. And it's potentially unsettling news for bloggers and social network users.
It seems a Canadian psychotherapist has been barred from entering the US after a border guard Googled the man's name and found an article of his about some LSD trips he took in the 1960s and 70s.
According to a story in independent Canadian paper The Tyee:
The official said that under the Homeland Security Act, Andrew Feldmar was being denied entry due to "narcotics" use. ... The border guard then escorted him to his car and made sure he did a U-turn and went back to Canada.
Not knowing the specifics of the case, TW Blog isn't going to default to the assumption that Homeland Security was wrong to turn Feldmar away.
But the story has been picked up by several blogs and magazines including Gadling and Wired, and will do little to sway potential vistors who are put off by the idea of heavy security.
Any fast-living TW readers - and having seen some of the 'related groups' on our Facebook page, I have my suspicions about you lot - may want to clean up their profile before heading across the pond.
Nathan Midgley, web producer
Nathan Midgley
Comments (2)
Oh b*gger, I'm off to the US and Canada next June.
Posted by Darren Cronian | October 27, 2007 3:54 AM
Posted on October 27, 2007 03:54
Ha. Don't worry, the above is the exception, not the rule. That's what makes it news ;)
Enjoy your trip - I mean journey...
Posted by Nathan | October 27, 2007 9:00 AM
Posted on October 27, 2007 09:00