NZ: Travellers refusing digital search now face $5000 Customs fine

[Eniigma]

Travellers who refuse to hand over their phone or laptop passwords to Customs officials can now be slapped with a $5000 fine.

The Customs and Excise Act 2018 - which comes into effect today - sets guidelines around how Customs can carry out "digital strip-searches".

Previously, Customs could stop anyone at the border and demand to see their electronic devices. However, the law did not specify that people had to also provide a password.

The updated law makes clear that travellers must provide access - whether that be a password, pin-code or fingerprint - but officials would need to have a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/nati...h-now-face-dollar5000-customs-fine/ar-BBNLCFW

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[Garson007]

You should stipulate that this is New Zealand $s and news.

 

[Eniigma]

Feel this can fit the current affairs due the privacy impact.

The new requirement for reasonable suspicion did not rein in the law at all, Mr Beagle said.

"They don't have to tell you what the cause of that suspicion is, there's no way to challenge it."

If they don't have to tell you what they suspect you of and you refuse, it's a $5000 fine with no recourse

 

[Ninja'd]

You should stipulate that this is New Zealand $s and news.

Either way, you're getting f**ked.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Israel done such searches for years, asked people to log in to FB even for anything anti semantic being posted.

whats news in NZ is now decided to do the same exact thing, maybe setting a trend for further digital searches on people?

 

[Cray]

Israel done such searches for years, asked people to log in to FB even for anything anti semantic being posted.

Semantics are indeed important...

 

[Ninja'd]

but officials would need to have a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.

So how exactly do I ensure I don't look like a child molester?

 

[Ninja'd]

Israel done such searches for years, asked people to log in to FB even for anything anti semantic being posted.

You either die in a Holocaust or you live long enough to become a grammar nazi.

 

[Nerfherder]

So how exactly do I ensure I don't look like a child molester?

Don't molest kids.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Israel done such searches for years, asked people to log in to FB even for anything anti semantic being posted.

whats news in NZ is now decided to do the same exact thing, maybe setting a trend for further digital searches on people?

Difference is Israel don't fine you for not complying, they just tell you to fsck off and put you on a plane to go back home (if they do the search in Israel)...

 

[Eniigma]

So how exactly do I ensure I don't look like a child molester?

Being Ninja it's probably a joke, but ffs imagine you smile at the single mom and her kid in the queue in front of you and now suddenly you're on some customs dweebs radar as molester.

 

[R13...]

Difference is Israel don't fine you for not complying, they just tell you to fsck off and put you on a plane to go back home (if they do the search in Israel)...

What do they do if you happen to be a local?

 

[ToxicBunny]

What do they do if you happen to be a local?

They let you in and then screw you over...

 

[Former member 61586]

So just make sure all your content on the phone/laptop is password protected? You only need to unlock the phone/laptop. Does the law state you have to provide passwords to get into accounts??

 

[supersunbird]

Luckily there are ways around this

 

[R13...]

Luckily there are ways around this

True, people with dick pics and criminals will take care that those aren't available to the casual observer

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

So how exactly do I ensure I don't look like a child molester?

Not gonna google that at work, but there's a pedo-bear-smile test you can use to calibrate your senses ... and alter your look if you like like any of those fekkers.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

What do they do if you happen to be a local?

you wont be targeted for "enhanced" interrogation, its against israeli laws.
although exceptions have been made in the past.

 

[access]

the solution here is to have some hardcore porn vid open on the desktop that starts playing on full volume as soon as you log in

 

[SaiyanZ]

Don't really see the point of this. Any troublemaker would delete/hide incriminating stuff if they know that devices are going to be accessed.