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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by gnopgnip on Sunday May 05, 2019 @05:46PM (#19835295)
Canada is successful 38% of the time when checking electronics. Common scenarios are seeing text messages showing someone has accepted a new job and will be working while on a visa waiver/tourist stay, or planning to get married while on a work visa.
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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by jpatokal on Sunday May 05, 2019 @05:54PM (#19835324)
However, in this case, they're checking the electronics of a Canadian citizen who has every right to be in the country.
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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by ddalex on Sunday May 05, 2019 @07:16PM (#19835691)
But they don't stop people coming into the country or seizing their property. They are temporarily withholding the devices and copy the data. That's why you use full disk encryption - is they want to copy and store pseudo random data, let them.
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