{"id":91815,"date":"2017-09-19T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/canadas-privacy-commissioner-very-concerned-about-u-s-border-phone-searches.html"},"modified":"2017-09-19T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T13:05:09","slug":"canadas-privacy-commissioner-very-concerned-about-u-s-border-phone-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/canadas-privacy-commissioner-very-concerned-about-u-s-border-phone-searches.html","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s privacy commissioner &#8216;very concerned&#8217; about U.S. border phone searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s privacy czar says Canadians should be &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about their cell phones, computers and other electronic devices being searched by U.S. border agents.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told a House of Commons committee Monday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers can look at mobile devices and even demand passwords under American law.<\/p>\n<p>Therrien cited statistics indicating U.S. border searches of mobile phones had increased between 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He said the devices contain a lot of sensitive information and people should be very concerned.<\/p>\n<p>New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen asked if that means no Canadian should cross the border with a phone, laptop or tablet unless they have comfort with a U.S. border official inspecting the contents.<\/p>\n<p>Therrien said yes.<\/p>\n<p>Cullen said one of his constituents in northern British Columbia was denied entry to the U.S. on health-related grounds because information on the person&#8217;s phone indicated a prescription for heart medication.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/us-border-cellphone-password-search-1.4296331?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s privacy czar says Canadians should be &#8220;very concerned&#8221; about their cell phones, computers and other electronic devices being searched by U.S. border agents. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told a House of Commons committee Monday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers can look at mobile devices and even demand passwords under American law. Therrien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-91815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}