New Zealand, You Must Give Password & Pin to your Phone So Customs Can Search

[Tony Koretz]

My comment: We have a Freemason groomed Prime Minister ( Jacinda Ardern) who is pushing the NWO agenda big time it seems. Our lovely country is going to the dogs!

Forget New Zealand – You Must Give Your Password & Pin to your Phone So Customs Can Search it When you Land

Ever since the Socialists took over New Zealand, it demonstrates how they presume everyone is guilty and they might be hiding money that they can confiscate all because rich bastards are not entitled to what they earn – it belongs to them always. If you refuse, the fine is $5,000.
New Zealand has become the first country to fine passengers who refuse to hand over their phone passwords at the border. Obviously, forget New Zealand. The New Zealand Customs and Excise Act 2018, which went into effect this week, allows customs officials to demand passwords, PINs and encryption keys to unlock devices for “digital strip searches” of anyone traveling to New Zealand.
Unfortunately, some other countries are watching closely. They will let you in if you pay the $5,000 fine and you cannot refuse and get on the next plane without paying the $5,000 fine. This is what lies in store when socialists grab control. Freedom of the individual NO LONGER exists!!!! The state comes before God, family, or human rights.
When you travel, you should get a burner phone. You cannot have anything private on your person. Welcome to 1984 – it was just a little late! Obviously, cross New Zealand off the list for vacations.

SOURCE: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/forget-new-zealand-you-must-give-your-password-pin-to-your-phone-so-customs-can-search-it-when-you-land/

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Travellers entering New Zealand who refuse to disclose passwords for their digital devices during forced searches could face prosecution and fines of more than $3,000 (A$4180), a move that border officials said Tuesday made the country the first to impose such penalties.

“We’re not aware of any other country that has legislated for the potential of a penalty to be applied if people do not divulge their passwords,” said Terry Brown, a New Zealand Customs spokesman. Border officials, he said, believe the new fine is an “appropriate remedy” aimed at balancing individuals’ privacy and national security.

In New Zealand — as in many other countries, including the United States — customs officers were already legally permitted to search cellphones and other digital devices as they would luggage, and to seize devices for forensic examination if they were believed to contain evidence of criminal activity.

But the law did not previously compel travellers to open their devices for inspection, either by entering a password or using biometric data like thumbprints or facial scans.

As of this week, travellers who fail to unlock their devices risk prosecution and potential fines of 5,000 New Zealand dollars, about $3,295.

The law applies to both foreign visitors and returning New Zealand citizens.

Brown, the customs spokesman, said that once a password was supplied, “preliminary searches” would be carried out with a traveller’s phone or computer set to flight mode, and officers would explore only files saved to the device, not website histories or any information uploaded to cloud-based storage.

A device could be confiscated for further examination only if the preliminary search led officials to believe that was warranted, although Brown admitted that failure to provide a password could be grounds for seizure.

But a spokesman for New Zealand’s Council for Civil Liberties, Thomas Beagle, told Radio New Zealand that it was not clear what constituted “reasonable suspicion” and there was no way for a traveller to challenge a forced search of their devices.

In 2017, New Zealand border officials conducted 537 preliminary searches of devices and customs officials said they did not expect that number to increase under the new law.

In the United States, the number of forced searches of devices at the border have increased in recent years, and have been subject to lawsuits where civil liberties advocates claim the examinations are invasive and unlawful.

READ MORE https://www.sbs.com.au/news/new-zealand-tells-travellers-to-hand-over-passwords-or-pay-the-price

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