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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I thought that "mandate" meant permission, not requirement. Going from this I understood that the author of the article said that ACTA doesn't give custom officials the permission to inspect your laptop. The text of ACTA shows otherwise.
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It is an interesting question. I had taken it in the sense of mandatory, so it will not be mandatory for officers to do so. I think that is more likely than that they will not be given a mandate to do so, but English is a funny language.