A federal court has ruled that border agents may not willy-nilly search whatever the hell they want, at least when it comes to electronics.
That's a good thing.
Court rules search of businessman’s laptop at border ‘unreasonable’
A federal court has ruled that the government’s search of a traveling businessman’s laptop at the California border was unreasonable and violated his privacy
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The fact that they can search through your actual computer seems bullshit without suspicion. Even the TSA has that ability. And many employers are instructing their employees to bypass the whole disk encryption is asked to do so.
+Jon Weber If my employer gave me permission to bypass the encyption on my laptop, I would certainly do so.
+Dave Hill I do. But I don't have to like it.
+Jon Weber I wouldn't particularly care for it, but it's also their data (and their laptop). My own laptop might be a different matter.