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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
How exactly is this supposed to work? Do you have to give them the password for the device, the password(s) for your email account(s). Will it be illegal to have encrypted files?
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There's case law that covers this. If you look up the exceptions to the 4th Amendment you can check it out. As I recall, a man near the Canadian border had his laptop seized and, according to him, he was 'forced' to reveal his password.
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And I get the fact that a laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc. are easy to see and seize but micro SD cards can hold many things. How will they search for those?
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I'm going to guess that our intelligence community has figured all this out. Guess it depends on their suspicions and what they're looking for, but I'm pretty sure they can keep whatever devices they seize for as long as they want.