One of the comments above mentioned that police in the UK (and western Europe) tend to be more polite than the often aggressive police in the U.S. This is belie

One of the comments above mentioned that police in the UK (and western Europe) tend to be more polite than the often aggressive police in the U.S. This is believable, so too is the notion that police and the justice apparatus in the US are also more punitive than their western European counterparts. With these things in mind, it's rather ironic that the U.S turns out to be the much better place for protecting ones digital privacy by refusing to disclose passwords. Since it's not even legally allowed in the US due to the Fifth Amendment... (border crossings still being extremely ambiguous places on this).