[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...rder-1.2982236



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?

Well I guess it'll have to be challenged in court (which it is going to be), but I think there's a pretty strong distinction between unlocking your phone or computer so they can inspect the data on that device, and letting them into your email or bank account (neither of which is data you are physically transporting into Canada).

As for the phone/computer itself, if you were to bring a bunch of paper documents across the border in a locked safe you would certainly be obliged to open the safe to show the CBSA. I don't see why a computer should be any different.