It is worth noting that every country grants themselves this right as part of importing things through customs!
The US actually goes a step further and allows "unrestricted" searches without a warrant within 75 miles of an International border - think Buffalo NY, San Diego, Tucson and a bunch of other cities!
They don't even have to give a reason!The only thing that has even a chance of stopping one of these searches is attorney-client privileged information. Strangely almost every country respects this and typically require at least some suspicion of wrongdoing by the attorney.
When I was traveling (pre universal internet) a lot I included a disclaimer warning of privileged "work product" and "client proprietary" information on the computer. I never did get to test this though, no one ever bothered with my laptop.
Now of course the logical thing to do is travel with a fresh install of the OS and NO actual data on the hard drive then download what you need with an encrypted VPN. My new ASUS router even includes such a VPN suitable for home use!
Mike On 06/13/2014 04:41 AM, Bill Cox wrote:
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