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>I really want to understand what kind of digital data is considered a customs-related offence. Photo of someone smoking a joint in a legally (at the state lev
by dontbenebby 8y ago
>I really want to understand what kind of digital data is considered a customs-related offence.
Photo of someone smoking a joint in a legally (at the state level) operated dispensary. A pirated MP3 or video file.
There's all sorts of minor "customs violations" that would come into view looking through a device that frankly, aren't serious enough to warrant the violation of privacy.
- ThatGeoGuy 8y ago> A pirated MP3 or video file In the first place, piracy is not illegal in Canada. Provisions surrounding copyright violations fall under bill C11, and that's a civil juncture, not a criminal one. So CBSA agents wouldn't be looking for that in the first place, nor would they have any grounds to do anything about it, since they aren't the rightsholders. And even if they did, they have an interesting burden of proof in proving a given file was obtained via piracy. And what would they do? Detain you indefinitely because they want to "have a discussion" about some pirated Katy Perry song? I would agree that photos of doing drugs could be met with refusal at the border, but be reasonable.
- p2t2p 8y agoThey are looking for what is called "objectionable material". I don't know about Canada but in Australia it would be importing porn, any CP-like looking things (say porn with young Asian females that look like children and they have no means to check their age) and so on. I don't know full definition but basically they can add and remove stuff to this "objectionably material" list. Possessing data listed there is a crime. Recently, in New Zealand the shooter video go onto that list.