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Re:US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff pr... by ohstopitu on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:29AM (#13706184)
This is not exactly true.

* Canadian' border can ask you for your local passwords.

* You can refuse - at which point, if you are Canadian/PR, you are allowed to enter the country but your device is confiscated and sent to Ottawa for further examination.

* They can NOT ask for online passwords (like your dropbox account for example). THAT SAID, if you give them your local password, and you are logged in to Dropbox, it's fair game.

Furthermore, this has not been through the Supreme Court to set precedence.

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Re:US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff pr... by Buge on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:45PM (#13711453)
Then why was Alain Philippon arrested and charged with a crime?

http://www.canada-usblog.com/2016/08/16/the-waiting-game-we-...

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Re:US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff pr... by ohstopitu on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:41AM (#13722535)
because he refused to hand over the local passwords for his devices.

I am not saying what the CBSA did was legal (as the case was dropped), but not handing over local passwords is considered "obstruction of the officer's job" by the CBSA (for which he was charged).

So I'm assuming that if they did want to charge you, they could.

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Re:US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff pr... by Buge on Friday February 24, 2017 @10:43PM (#13729913)
But you said "You can refuse". His case proves that's not true.

And his case wasn't dropped. He plead guilty.

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