How to protect your phone and data when crossing the U.S. border | CIRA (www.cira.ca)

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There are similar guides from other organizations as well, if anyone has a link on hand

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[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I'm curious if anybody knows here since Lemmy is full of privacy and tech whizzes. If someone were to travel for work and had to take their work device and that person worked for the government or other equally classified entity, would the border patrol still be able to review all that? What about like medical records covered under PIPEDA/HIPAA?

The article simply says "yes they can search your electronics" but wouldn't gov classified info be covered more securely under some other law?

I'm not going down there, just a thought that came up reading the article.

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I would hope no one crossing the boarder would carry any of that stuff on their devices across the boarder (without a diplomatic pouch or equivalent) any time, I could not say the same about that today. I would hope that any of that important data would be separate and under further encryption, with fail safes to protect it.

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