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Sydney airport seizure of phone and laptop 'alarming', say privacy groups
- ggm 8y agoI envy my confreres who get to travel with burner laptops. But the other side of the coin is having to preclear to justify permission to travel. Owning your own burner is good but for some people won't work. I did a one year peripetetic work-around-the-world and a burner isn't an option for that. You really do wind up wanting private cloud and no cached state sometimes. The people who have to preclear have state secrets. I don't think many of us carry that burden, it's just fear of being held to account by random circumstances.
- bbcbasic 8y agoWhat is peripetetic? I googled it but only found "walking about".
- macleginn 8y agoThe Customs Act works nicely with GDPR: “Hague... said the actions of the ABF officers had put his business in breach of Europe’s tough new GDPR data privacy laws and he would now need to give privacy breach notifications to his clients.”
- sundvor 8y agoThis is staggering. Crossing the border gives the government freedom to do whatever they like, privacy be damned. (Looks like the submission was missed; really needs to get to the front page)
- jaclaz 8y ago> Put it on the cloud where the GDPR [EU’s General Data Protection Regulation] is in force ... ... so that any government with enough technical means can (illegally) access the data at their leasure and in such a way that you won't even know it was accessed....
- vinni2 8y agoI always shutdown my phone and laptop at the border crossing and I always have firmware password on and hope that they can’t gather anything from my laptop. And just hope they can’t crack my 6 digit iphone passcode easily.