http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...rder-1.2982236
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Rob Currie is the director of the Law and Technology Institute at the Schulich School of Law. He says under the law, travellers crossing the Canadian border have a reduced expectation of privacy.
He says border officials have wide-ranging powers to search travellers and their belongings.
"Under the Customs Act, customs officers are allowed to inspect things that you have, that you're bringing into the country," he said. "The term used in the Act is 'goods', but that certainly extends to your cellphone, to your tablet, to your computer, pretty much anything you have."
Currie says the issue of whether a traveller must reveal a password to an electronic device at the border hasn’t been tested by a court.
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Seems like a slippery slope we're heading down here. Could you be charged with obstruction for not divulging, say, the password to your emails, or to your bank account?