Since several states are wrestling with this issue, Fakhoury expects it will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney at digital rights non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation, says your privacy rights at the border are limited.

FORBES: The Privacy Price To Cross The Border

But the real difference between them, says Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Hanni Fakhoury, is what investigators expected to find on those scrambled hard drives.

FORBES: Two Cases' Lessons: If Cops Don't Know What You Encrypted, They Can't Make You Decrypt It