Showing posts with label border. Show all posts
Showing posts with label border. Show all posts
Sunday, May 29, 2022

The problem with Bill S-7: Device searches at the border

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The government wants border agents to be able to search your smartphones and laptops without any suspicion that you’ve done anything wron...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Presentation: Privacy and privilege at the Canadian border

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The Canadian Bar Association's British Columbia Privacy and Access Law Section and the Immigration Section kindly invited me to Vancouve...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Border guard union rejects name tags on privacy grounds

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The union representing front-line border guards in Canada has vowed to fight the modernization of uniforms that includes nametags. The union...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

Laptop searches at airports infrequent, DHS privacy report says

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Computerworld is reporting on the first report of the Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office since the changeover to the Obama admi...
Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Cross-border laptop searches: the view from Canada

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I had the opportunity this morning to speak at the Ontario Bar Association's annual CLE extravaganza on the topic of cross border lapto...
Friday, January 02, 2009

The Canadian Privacy Law Blog is Five!

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Five years ago, on January 2, 2004, a new age of privacy was creeping across Canada and this blog was born. The day before, at the stroke of...
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Friday, August 01, 2008

Nomadic laptops can expect the rubber glove treatment

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There's been a bit of a buzz lately about laptop inspections by the Department of Homeland Security ( Crossing the border? Consider the ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

US border agents given unfettered access to travelers' laptops

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A US Federal Appeals Court has overruled a lower court ruling that had previously restricted laptop searches at the border. The 9th Circuit ...