Travelling overseas? What to do if a border agent demands access to your digital device
- Written by Katina Michael, Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society & School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
New laws enacted in New Zealand give customs agents the right to search your phone.Shutterstock
New laws enacted in New Zealand this month give border agents the right to demand travellers entering the country hand over passwords for their digital devices. We outline what you should do if it happens to you, in the first part of a series exploring...
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