Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
I have asked this question before, but never really got a satisfiable answer: why do governments (not just USA/canada) spend these resources to check data physically at a border?<p>It's not like you need to 'smuggle' any form of data physically.<p>I mean, any data considered to be dangerous (like terrorist attack plans, atomic bomb designs or political inside information) can be accessed across borders via the internet. You don't need to have those on any of your devices.<p>And even if you had the data on a laptop, how does border patrol even know what they are looking at?