While protecting your data privacy is important, I’d be more concerned about being detained without reason or recourse.<p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-detention-immigration-408cd27338e8065268fabc835f8b0c34" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-d...</a><p>Here’s a better tip: Don’t travel to the US. They are making it very clear they don’t want anyone else there.
Very simple - burner phone for sketchy countries.<p>Then again with phones being basically mirrored to the cloud my working assumption is that US gov is helping itself to my data anyway
I've read reports of people getting detained or worse over how the authorities felt about their online activity (eg, social media posts etc).<p>It's trivial to delete social apps off your phone, and claim you don't have accounts on (at least) the less common ones.<p>My question is, do they have backdoors to the major ones? Say you go on a wild rant a few times, delete it afterwards -- can "they" root through the DBs and examine the deleted posts? Is that something meta/twitter/etc even keep long-term?
> “The super-conservative perspective is to assume they are completely unhinged and that even the most benign reasons for travel are going to subject non-citizens to these device searches,” said Sophia Cope, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit digital rights group.
It's high time that the EU retaliates and institutes similar demands for US travellers. India and China could do the same.<p>Causing inconvenience to ordinary Americans is the only way that will get through the thick brains of US Congress, I am afraid. And this should have been done in retaliation ever since these measures were introduced.
I just walked across the border though customs at Tijuana 2 days ago and didn’t see any of this. I’d be surprised if this is a common enough occurrence that the average person would have to worry about it.