Originally Posted by traveller42

Someone in the UK has apparently been talking to the newspapers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...-eu-officials/

> Senior officials in Whitehall told The Telegraph on Tuesday that the UK security establishment did not believe a laptop ban was justified and were working, alongside European officials, to convince Washington it was unnecessary.
> "We just don't think a laptop ban is justified," the source said, "not for flights from Europe or from the UK."