>>Digital strip searches in NZ, that's new today
Between November 2017 and March 2018, border agents searched digital devices of around 200 travelers arriving in NZ. So this isn't new: the main effect of current legislative effort is that while you had to provide access to your devices at the border, there was no specific mention of providing a password. Now there is.
Worth noting that in the same time period, Canadian border agents did "digital strip searches" on electronic devices of 4,529 travelers.
Not sure why they call it a digital strip search when the scanners at airports perform effectively that function and border personnel have always had the same right to open and inspect your luggage.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
