> before you travel, you upload the encrypted image and wipe the phone, then after passing through customs you restore
That sounds like willfully evading customs, which is a serious crime.
That sounds like willfully evading customs, which is a serious crime.
If you can lawfully download a phone image over the internet while in the country and you can lawfully enter the country with no or limited digital information on your person then I don't see how backing up your phone in a different country (where New Zealand has no jurisdiction) and legally downloading the backup in New Zealand is evading customs.
Another (presumably) legal scenarios would include backing up all of your data, carrying no phone into the country, and then purchasing one while there. Is that "evading customs"?
Something I've noticed those of us who work with computers having difficult with when it comes to the law is the way intent changes the legality of an action. Wiring money to person X is generally legal, unless done so for the purpose of acquiring illegal contraband. At that point, both the illegal acquisition and the wire become illegal.
Twice now you've expressed this belief. Please share some primary sources that inform your beliefs.
It's even in Basecamp's international travel manual: https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/internation...
Do you have any citations or evidence that choosing to back up this line of thinking? I'd love to read more about the specifics of how downloading legal data from the internet suddenly becomes illegal if you could have carried it across the border.
For example, if once in NZ I pull down new music onto my device from my iTunes cloud library to replace what I listened to on the plane, is this "evading customs"?
Please provide citations to the specific law(s) I'm breaking by doing so, and how downloading the legally purchased music would be any different from a PC image.
Thanks!
I do too. But if you systematically do that before going through customs, with the intention of denying a customs agent the data, that's a different intent. Intent matters when it comes to the law.