Policy Observatory
Nordic-Baltic digital single market 'no threat to EU'
Tue 19 Dec 2017, 19:00
'What we want do is add value on top, and do things' such as border controls and free data movement, said Norwegian state secretary Paul Chaffey about Nordic-Baltic digital cooperation.
New US policy wants to demand passwords of travelers’ electronic devices
Fri 5 Jan 2018, 11:30
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, today posted a revised policy on Border Searches of Electronic Devices and a Privacy Impact Assessment of some of the changes made by the new policy. CBP is now claiming the authority to confiscate cellphones, laptops, memory cards, and any other electronic devices if the traveller refuses to tell CBP their passwords, and to retain the passwords given to them as well as the contents of those devices.