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> Or wipe your phone, restore backup from cloud on arrival.

I'd wager the agents could legitimately (for some deranged, modern usage of that word) require that you either surrender your phone anyway or restore it immediately so they can review what you're clearly planning on bringing into the country.

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By that logic they could demand live access to your bank/social/email account as well. It's one thing to search things that you physically bring into the country - this article was talking about NZ only search the phones in "Airplane" mode.

True, the way this law is apparently defined I think you could get away with it, but the distinction between what's on the device and what's in the cloud is getting fuzzier all the time, and I'm not sure other countries would feel so constrained.

Restore to what account? I have so many, I doubt they are aware of all my accounts

>Please provide a finite list of your accounts. Lying by omission is still lying.

It's easy to come up with new stasi operation techniques if there are no civil liberties.

> Please tell me all your crime and don’t omit anything.

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