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>🇨🇦 The Canadian government is warning citizens visiting the United States that US border officials have the authority to search travelers' electronic devices – including phones, laptops, and tablets – without providing a reason
So like everyone else, who cares?
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@Bad_Banner @NitroDubs >general custom & border procedures
>Perving through someones private information is a general boarder procedure.
Hmm.
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@NitroDubs Every government does this; so it's them telling it's citizens general custom & border procedures as a fear tactic.
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@Bad_Banner After the trucker protests the Canadian Government hasn't got much of a leg to stand on here.
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@Bad_Banner @NitroDubs The right to privacy is a basic human right (this should be obvious, but interestingly that one is carefully being memory holed out of history in wikipedia and the like) and crimes against humanity (even minor ones) cannot possibly be a general procedure.
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@Suiseiseki @NitroDubs Is it not?
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@Bad_Banner @NitroDubs >people tacitly let it happen to them
They think they have a choice in the matter and think they're letting it happen, when they cannot say no.
>without much consequence.
That's what they keep telling themselves, but there sure are consequences.
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@Suiseiseki @NitroDubs But it is, despite any cope to say the contrary. Plus people tacitly let it happen to them, as a whole, daily, without much consequence.