evacideIf you are traveling to or through Hong Kong, here is a new thing to consider when you are deciding whether or not to take your devices with you and how you should set them up.
PassengerThis is also the law in the UK and has been for a while now; it is very selectively enforced but cops are getting more insistent about it under the current regime.
(The relevant law is section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. This was sold to the public as necessary for serious counterterrorism and only to be used in extreme cases.)
GlitzersachenIt's clearly an extreme case if you got passwords on your devices or --- God forbid --- even encryption.
Who do you think you are? A spy agency? Nah, likely only an "extreme case" (of what, we'll find out later, after having had a look at your laptop and mobile).
True story: a compa was once asked for his phone password at a demo (he had a demo phone on him.) When he asked for a court order, as is theoretically his legal right, the cop threatened to arrest him for theft, on the grounds that this "proved" that the phone wasn't his.