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Originally Posted by ken0042
I guess I alsways figured that they always had the right to do this. That's why all my sensitive stuff gets put into a zip folder, and renamed whatever.log
Rename it back to .zip and then open it when I get where I'm going. But mainly to avoid embarrasment at the airport than anything else.
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I think my biggest issue is that they make copies of it and then send you on your way. I used to use my laptop to store tax files that I would work on at home, where does a foreign Government get the right to have those files at their leisure?
If the RCMP wants my files they need a court order, but because I crossed a border they have the rights to them?
I dont see it. Especially because they literally could copy the entire drive and have a room full of peons sift through it until the end of time for no discernable purpose with no guarantees of any sort of confidentiality.
They could just sell the info to cover budget deficits.