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Canada can require you to give up your phone password when entering. As far as I heard, the US does not require that (but can confiscate your phone). Is there possibly another country that doesn't require it?

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US CBP definitely can ask for your passcode/passwords. There was a post on HN last week about a guy who refused to turn over his passcode: https://vc.gg/blog/so-its-been-a-while.html

Yes, the US can ask for you password, but they can't require you to give up your password. If you don't give your password, they confiscate your device. In Canada, if you don't give your password they can charge you with a crime and you can spend up to a year in jail.

Kidding? Ref please?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/alain-philippon-phone-password-case-p...

For more sources google canada phone password. Tons of results.

There's this show about the Canadian border services and they regularly go through people's phones: 'Border Security'

And computers too, some French guy was caught with "anime porn" on his hard drive at the border, went to prison for a few month.

Canadian customs once searched my brother's laptop at the border, in his presence, and their method was as trivial as doing a Windows file search for "boy" and "girl".

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