$5000 FINE for refusing digital search!

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Travellers who refuse to hand over their phone or laptop passwords to Customs officials can now be slapped with a $5000 fine.

The Customs and Excise Act 2018 - which comes into effect today - sets guidelines around how Customs can carry out "digital strip-searches".

Previously, Customs could stop anyone at the border and demand to see their electronic devices. However, the law did not specify that people had to also provide a password.

The updated law makes clear that travellers must provide access - whether that be a password, pin-code or fingerprint - but officials would need to have a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.

"It is a file-by-file [search] on your phone. We're not going into 'the cloud'. We'll examine your phone while it's on flight mode," Customs spokesperson Terry Brown said.

If people refused to comply, they could be fined up to $5000 and their device would be seized and forensically searched.

Full article - https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/nati...ing-digital-search-now-face-5000-customs-fine

What's your thought on this?
 
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Put your files on a secure cloud and use firefox to access them. no worries!
 
HelloBTCMINER said:
Chrome is not a software but piece of spy program.
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Correct. And as much as I hate chrome, I am FORCED to like it for the smoothness that it is which was Firefox back in 2005-2011.

Firefox was smooth like chrome back in those years but over the years it got slow. Even when you are in the updated version, you will feel slow and a bit laggy. Even MS Edge is faster than Firefox.
 
I travel a lot and I've been asked to turn on my laptop a few times. I complied and put in my password as I had nothing to hide.

All they did was check my browser's history + bookmarks. Then scrolled through my folders and more specifically the "Downloads" folder. Found nothing interesting and they let me go. The whole process took around 15 minutes if I recall correctly.
 
May be a controversial opinion but I think its a good thing. Its not so important here but the "invasion of personal privacy" argument is ultimately helping serious criminals to stay protected. Think about the tech giants that refuse or make it very hard to hand over data or information relating to murder investigations and so on - it seems like the people who don't really have anything insignificant to hide are the ones citing personal privacy and in reality they are protecting the people who do have something to hide.
 
What about all the weird porno videos I have on my phone :( that would be embarrassing.
 
Like with defcon.

the smart thing to do is send your data on an encrypted hard drive through the post and then just take a clean install of windows on a laptop.
 
I thought you meant this kind of "digital" search

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Stewielenor said:
My CPU doesn't like chrome,
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So, firefox is butter smooth like chrome in your PC? Whats ur system config?

cerebration said:
I travel a lot and I've been asked to turn on my laptop a few times. I complied and put in my password as I had nothing to hide.

All they did was check my browser's history + bookmarks. Then scrolled through my folders and more specifically the "Downloads" folder. Found nothing interesting and they let me go. The whole process took around 15 minutes if I recall correctly.
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So, if they find some English movies, porns, games with cracks inside my hard drive, I am screwed?

And what if in the browsing history they see a couple of torrent sites and warez sites? I'm screwed more?
 
EternalFun said:
So, firefox is butter smooth like chrome in your PC? Whats ur system config?


So, if they find some English movies, porns, games with cracks inside my hard drive, I am screwed?

And what if in the browsing history they see a couple of torrent sites and warez sites? I'm screwed more?
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I'm not exactly sure. I got checked on my way out of the United States. I had just bought my MacBook a month ago and I was working in the US pretty hard, so I had almost no time to use it(read: fill it with illegal stuff). The only suspicious thing I had on my laptop was a folder called Books which contained 700mb - only e-books. But can you prove that I didn't buy all of them? Yes, they weren't on iBooks, but what if I bought them on my old PC and transferred them?
 
Do they check your laptop folders privately or you can see what they're doing? I can't imaging letting anyone check my laptop privately as I have folders where I save my crypto private keys
 
davids355 said:
May be a controversial opinion but I think its a good thing. Its not so important here but the "invasion of personal privacy" argument is ultimately helping serious criminals to stay protected. Think about the tech giants that refuse or make it very hard to hand over data or information relating to murder investigations and so on - it seems like the people who don't really have anything insignificant to hide are the ones citing personal privacy and in reality they are protecting the people who do have something to hide.
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On this occasion I have to disagree with you. Personal privacy should be an unalienable/undeniable right.
You have been misled by the media, the reason tech giants do not immediately hand over personal data is because they are legally required to follow data protection regulations. When they have been provided with the legal paper-work (court order) then that data is supplied. Requests from governments or law enforcement should be denied if a court order has not been supplied. Until somebody has been found guilty of a crime they should receive the same protection as everybody else. These are fundamental principles on which our laws and legal systems have been based on, changing them without the right to due process will mean innocent people will become victim to unwarranted investigations by government/law enforcement.




Also I bet these scum bag journalists complaining about FaceBook not handing over data are the same scum bags that hacked Milly Dowler's mobile phone.
The Daily Express and The Daily Mail have no shame.
 
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