Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful In this era of digitization, each device a person carries inevitably contains or can grant access to a substantial amount of personal information. This makes them prime targets for border authorities worldwide, who have been squeezing their controls ever tighter and demanding access to travelers' wares. According to a BBC report, Hong Kong has now joined the trend, forcing anyone questioned by police to surrender their device passwords, under penalty of imprisonment and fines of up to HK$100,000, or around $12,700. All nationalities are covered by the updated law, which draws much of its framework from mainland China. Techies may be considering one of many ways to encrypt data in funny schemes or adding a second password to apps. Still, even then, the updated law clearly states that device owners must assist with decryption.…