When this hits the supreme Court they need to debar the prosecutors who bring these cases to begin with.
The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
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Re: The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
#12"If you’re a fan of privacy in our age of creeping digital authoritarianism, there’s one famously effective way to pass through U.S. Customs at an airport without worrying about a device search: travel with a burner phone only." What about setting your phone from the get go to store all data on the micro sim card ? Then, when traveling through airports, swap out for another micro sim that has some small, useless data…
That isn't something that actually exists
less than a minute of an duckduckgo search: https://www.sysmocom.de/products/sim/sysmousim/index.html
Re: The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
#13Disgusting. I’ve never had to let anyone touch my phone in my entire life in any country I’ve visited. Is there a list of countries that does this? At this point it’s obvious I won’t ever be traveling to the US, but I’m curious if genuinely authoritarian countries like China are actually less of a police state at the border than the USA.
I think almost all countries do this if your name is on a list (as this person's is). It's the nature of the lists and what gets your name added to them that varies from country to country.
Re: The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
#14Disgusting. I’ve never had to let anyone touch my phone in my entire life in any country I’ve visited. Is there a list of countries that does this? At this point it’s obvious I won’t ever be traveling to the US, but I’m curious if genuinely authoritarian countries like China are actually less of a police state at the border than the USA.
I travelled to the US three times and once had my devices checked. Travelled to China more than 50 times, never had anything checked.
Re: The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
#15Disgusting. I’ve never had to let anyone touch my phone in my entire life in any country I’ve visited. Is there a list of countries that does this? At this point it’s obvious I won’t ever be traveling to the US, but I’m curious if genuinely authoritarian countries like China are actually less of a police state at the border than the USA.
UK passed a law for this recently. Germany has been doing it for a while.
Re: The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
#16"If you’re a fan of privacy in our age of creeping digital authoritarianism, there’s one famously effective way to pass through U.S. Customs at an airport without worrying about a device search: travel with a burner phone only." What about setting your phone from the get go to store all data on the micro sim card ? Then, when traveling through airports, swap out for another micro sim that has some small, useless data…
At least on Android they've removed the ability to encrypt data stored on external media, so in exchange for the ability to do this you're carrying around everything unencrypted (except what individual apps might encrypt themselves).
Re: The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
#17Disgusting. I’ve never had to let anyone touch my phone in my entire life in any country I’ve visited. Is there a list of countries that does this? At this point it’s obvious I won’t ever be traveling to the US, but I’m curious if genuinely authoritarian countries like China are actually less of a police state at the border than the USA.
I think almost all countries do this if your name is on a list (as this person's is). It's the nature of the lists and what gets your name added to them that varies from country to country.
Visiting another country is a privilege, not a right.
Re: The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
#18Disgusting. I’ve never had to let anyone touch my phone in my entire life in any country I’ve visited. Is there a list of countries that does this? At this point it’s obvious I won’t ever be traveling to the US, but I’m curious if genuinely authoritarian countries like China are actually less of a police state at the border than the USA.
I've been to China recently. No phone search whatsoever. Their Internet is behind the famous Great Firewall though, but there is no issue using a (foreigner-only) unlocked sim or e-sim to access the rest of the Internet.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think almost all countries do this if your name is on a list (as this person's is). It's the nature of the lists and what gets your name added to them that varies from country to country.
Visiting another country is a privilege, not a right.
That, whatever it means, cannot mean losses of personal rights.
Re: The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
#20Do not cross with your gadgets. And just do not go to / via the US.