I may have well been one of those people, but I recently had a terrible experience crossing the border into Canada. I was on a bus, and everyone was waived thro

I may have well been one of those people, but I recently had a terrible experience crossing the border into Canada. I was on a bus, and everyone was waived through but me. They asked the purpose of my visit, which was to see an old friend. I told them truthfully when they asked, that I'd met her on the internet years and years ago, as a teenager. I also had met her in real life before. I was pulled aside for over 30 minutes and grilled about embarrassing, irrelevant things. The border patrol then asked for me to unlock my phone to look at my email. I was shocked and asked if that was necessary and/or legal. He looked at me with this cold look and said, "This is the border. We can ask you to do anything." I didn't have anything to hide but I just felt so violated sitting there on a bench while he looked through my phone. It was pretty traumatic for me and I've gotten flashbacks to the event a few times - it will make me take precautions and think twice before traveling with my laptop and phone if the border patrol can just ask for the password - which, I don't think they can, but they could also stop me from entering Canada probably if I denied. It's not as obvious when it's going on behind the scenes, but it's so different for me now that I went through this event. I just can't get over how violated I felt, and honestly - I ask any of the people Tweeting for that to happen to them, for some cold-eyed patrol officer to grab your phone, force you to unlock it, and just go through your mail, Facebook, snapchat, embarrassing photos, etc. Just because it happens behind the scenes doesn't make it better.