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Cite as: 529 U. S. 334 (2000)

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Breyer, J., dissenting

forcement ofﬁcers searching for drugs near borders from
using even the most nonintrusive touch to help investigate
publicly exposed bags. At the same time, the ubiquity of
non-governmental pushes, prods, and squeezes (delivered by
driver, attendant, passenger, or some other stranger) means
that this decision cannot do much to protect true privacy.
Rather, the traveler who wants to place a bag in a shared
overhead bin and yet safeguard its contents from public
touch should plan to pack those contents in a suitcase with
hard sides, irrespective of the Court’s decision today.

For these reasons, I dissent.