Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
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Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#2> He said the officer then confiscated his phone and laptop, and told him the items would be sent to a government lab which would try to crack his passwords and search his files.
Hopefully they were powered down and used proper full-disk encryption.
Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#3I never really understood the reason for seizing an electronic device anyway. Surely if something was important / secret enough it wouldn't be _on_ the phone. What are they looking for, exactly?
Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#4I never really understood the reason for seizing an electronic device anyway. Surely if something was important / secret enough it wouldn't be _on_ the phone. What are they looking for, exactly?
Why would it not be on the phone?
Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#5I never really understood the reason for seizing an electronic device anyway. Surely if something was important / secret enough it wouldn't be _on_ the phone. What are they looking for, exactly?
> What are they looking for, exactly?
Probably anything incriminating. Human nature is laziness so if the guy was a baddie then there's a high chance something could be on the devices.
Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#6He's suing to get them back and for compensation for having to "temporarily" replace them, but even if he wins he probably shouldn't trust either device in the future (possibly more so for the laptop).
Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#7> Officers uncovered a customs-related offence during 38 per cent of those searches, said the agency.
I really want to understand what kind of digital data is considered a customs-related offence.
Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#8I never really understood the reason for seizing an electronic device anyway. Surely if something was important / secret enough it wouldn't be _on_ the phone. What are they looking for, exactly?
Intimidation and overt censorship. No doubt this simple device pacifies a good subset of society and promotes self-censorship.
Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#9>Wright refused, telling the officer both devices contained confidential information protected by solicitor-client privilege.
>He said the officer then confiscated his phone and laptop, and told him the items would be sent to a government lab which would try to crack his passwords and search his files.
Can this be used to get whatever case(es) he was defending thrown out because solicitor-client privilege was violated or parallel construction was used?
Re: Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
#10>Wright refused, telling the officer both devices contained confidential information protected by solicitor-client privilege. >He said the officer then confiscated his phone and laptop, and told him the items would be sent to a government lab which would try to crack his passwords and search his files. Can this be used to get whatever case(es) he was defending thrown out because solicitor-client privilege was violate…
IANAL, but I think it might. Bot sure though.