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Re:Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers... by karaterobot on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:30AM (#40646588)
As the article states, they can take your phone and try to hack it, but they can't otherwise punish you for refusing to give them your password.
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Re:Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers... by coldtea on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:44AM (#40646763)
>they can't otherwise punish you for refusing to give them your password.

Except of course by denying you entry, marking you in some "no fly" blacklist, and other ways that are not oficially "punishments", but are very much so in practice...

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Re:Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers... by alexey-salmin on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:42AM (#40646735)
They can refuse entry at any time, and legally speaking it's not punishment
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Re:Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers... by grecy on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @11:14AM (#40647159)
No country can refuse entry to it's own citizen.

They must admit a citizen, but they can then arrest them immediately.

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Re:Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers... by alexey-salmin on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:49PM (#40649970)
Right, but this subtree was specifically about non-citizens.

> Does it apply to non-citizens?

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