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We're really talking about access to accounts (e.g. gmail), not the devices themselves (or the former is of more interest, anyway). What's to stop these agents from simply demanding you turn over your email/facebook/whatever credentials, regardless of whether you're carrying electronics on your person? IIRC they're actually already demanding Facebook credentials from certain travelers. Unless you literally have no in…
> But before we do, take a moment to think about all the apps you have on your phone. Email? Facebook? Dropbox? Your browser? Signal? The history of everything you’ve ever done — everything you’ve ever searched, and everything you’ve ever said to anyone — is right there in those apps. If you personally do not care about your privacy, why should someone else care?
Privacy is a right afforded others. Your particular risk model may or may not include CBP, both others' might. Immigration lawyers (for whom attorney-client privilege should hold), immigration NGO workers (for whom it almost certainly doesn't), journalists, asylees, among others. The protections which apply to you also apply to them, and aren't granted conditionally. Which is why, if you believe in civil liberties, l…
It's an invasion of privacy (to what extent is debatable, but I'd rather not make a stance there), but so is going through my luggage, x-rays, etc. I understand why they're there, and I have a tiny twinge of "what if they find something weird" every time I go through the airport, but I also trust the system (again, to some extent) and recognize why these processes exist.
Fun fact: I've accidentally tried to go through security post-9/11 with a half-dozen hunting knives in my carry-on (after a camping trip) and they were very concerned at first, but just asked some questions, told me to throw them out, and let me through.
Saying "if you've got nothing to hide, why worry?" is a trope by now, but I'm clearly not the person they're looking for and I'm not too worried about a mild, temporary inconvenience if they mistake me for a Bad Guy.
I wonder how possible it would be to create a jailed environment on Android or iOS that can not access any of the data on your phone and could be entered by putting in a false password. That would allow you to enter your "password" on-demand and then only present a jailed process to those seeking to violate your privacy. It could appear to be a full experience, but not actually contain any personal data, or contain f…
"I'll never carry my phone when entering the US from abroad again. Neither should you"
Imagine everyone starts doing this. Would they start to ask for your FB/Gmail login credentials?
Supposing all this is true, and you leave your phone/laptop at home, what stops the the border control agent from demanding that you log in to your email and social media accounts on a device they provide before allowing entry?
Works best if you are a citizen of the country you try to enter.
IANAL but reading other articles on this topic I don't think this is true - I think it's just that the 4th amendment rights that all searches and seizes have to be with done with warrant or probable cause are suspended at border due to doctrine of "border search exception".
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... really? Can you expand on that? In my country, the government is not in the habit of sending out emails, largely so that they can tell people to disregard any email that claims to be from the government, as it's usually a scammer.
The United States government owns the .gov gtld so it's pretty easy to identify their emails.
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But that's completely speculative, there is no documented instance of another country doing the same at the moment.
The UK has has their citizens to unlock devices and provide encryption keys upon demand for years, it's not limited to airports and they're not allowed to tell anyone it happened.