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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by wyager on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:45PM (#14405172)
I assume you're referring to illegal immigration, in which case there is at least a legal (if possibly not moral) basis for screwing people over.

The story with stealing citizens' personal information is entirely different; there is almost certainly no legitimate legal basis to fuck over US citizens for excercizing the basic rights explicitly protected by the 4th and 5th amendments, just because they happen to be at a border area.

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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by kasey_junk on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:55PM (#14405250)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

The Supreme Court has actually weighed in on this and granted it a legitimate legal basis.

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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by 0xTJ on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:56PM (#14405259)
But what about non-Americans? As a Canadian, I can have a very valid reason to go to the States, and even refusing a search once could cause me issues any time I try to go to the US.
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