NZ Customs Can Now Demand You Unlock Your Phone

You can now face a $5,000 fine for not unlocking your phone if ordered to do so, when coming into NZ <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/01/nz_border_customs/>. Justice Minister Andrew Little says: “The bill provides for that power of search and examination, but in order to exercise that power, a customs officer, first of all, has to be satisfied, or at least to have a reasonable suspicion, that a person in possession of such a device—it would be a cellphone or a laptop or anything else that might be described as an 'e-device'—has been involved in criminal offending.” Howver, ... the Council of Civil Liberties criticised the “reasonable cause” protection as inadequate, because someone asked to unlock a device isn't told what that cause might be, and therefore has no way to challenge the request.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro