Chris*, an Australian tech entrepreneur who lives in the US with his wife and children, said he has been held up at Sydney airport for hours three times in the past year during trips to visit his family, including most recently just over a week ago.
In the third case, I was informed that if I did not provide my phone passcode the device, which I communicated [to them] I depend on travel [for] my livelihood and to run my business, could be kept indefinitely [for] forensic examination.”
Australian Border Force officials have powers to examine people’s devices without a warrant when they visit or return to Australia through customs.
“Warrantless search and seizure enables any law-abiding citizen to be subjected to an unlimited fishing expedition on the whim of any officer at any time, with zero judicial oversight or review, zero checks and balances, and zero right to obtain any information about why they are being targeted.
“My only defence is to regress to 1985 and travel without a single electronic device, depriving me of my ability to communicate, my livelihood and to even call my airline.”
“The Human Rights Law Centre has consistently raised concerns around the lack of transparency, safeguards and oversight of ABF’s extraordinary powers to seize electronic devices at borders,” he said.
The original article contains 769 words, the summary contains 217 words. Saved 72%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Chris*, an Australian tech entrepreneur who lives in the US with his wife and children, said he has been held up at Sydney airport for hours three times in the past year during trips to visit his family, including most recently just over a week ago.
In the third case, I was informed that if I did not provide my phone passcode the device, which I communicated [to them] I depend on travel [for] my livelihood and to run my business, could be kept indefinitely [for] forensic examination.”
Australian Border Force officials have powers to examine people’s devices without a warrant when they visit or return to Australia through customs.
“Warrantless search and seizure enables any law-abiding citizen to be subjected to an unlimited fishing expedition on the whim of any officer at any time, with zero judicial oversight or review, zero checks and balances, and zero right to obtain any information about why they are being targeted.
“My only defence is to regress to 1985 and travel without a single electronic device, depriving me of my ability to communicate, my livelihood and to even call my airline.”
“The Human Rights Law Centre has consistently raised concerns around the lack of transparency, safeguards and oversight of ABF’s extraordinary powers to seize electronic devices at borders,” he said.
The original article contains 769 words, the summary contains 217 words. Saved 72%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!