Easy solution: Travel with a burner phone.
That's a very loose definition of "easy"
Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years
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#12Easy solution: Travel with a burner phone.
Just make sure you use it for a few days before hand so it doesn't appear to be a burner phone, lest you be considered suspicious and remanded for additional interrogation.
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#13Easy solution: Travel with a burner phone.
Samsung: Hold my beer, I have a nice phone to you.
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#1410,000 phone searches in the last two years.
3.3m visitors in March 2024 alone.
So something like 0.01% of travellers get their phones searched. How are those 0.01% selected?
> The agency does not provide information on the success rate for searches, but has said a phone would only be seized where officers suspected it had “special forfeited goods” such as “illegal pornography, terrorism-related material and media that has been, or would be, refused classification”.
One wonders how such a suspicion is formed.
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#15Before any international travel:
1. Wipe phone 2. Install goatse wallpaper
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#16> The department data reveals that close to 94% of the time people freely revealed their phone passcode to officers, despite there being no legal requirement to do so. There really needs to be better education in civics. It's so important to know your rights, especially when someone in a position of authority tries to abuse that authority.
'freely revealed' probably means 'we\'ll have to keep this until we managed to unlock it.'
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#17This comment section reveals that you live in a dystopia.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
While you are legally required to hand over the passcode, they can confiscate the device for two weeks or more, which is probably a large deterrent for most people.
That's the point the article makes, you are _not_ legally required to hand over the password. > Officers routinely ask travellers to provide their passcode or password to devices so they can be examined, but they do not have the power to compel passengers to hand over their passcodes,
Right, and grandparent has a typo. True you are not required to hand over the password, but they aren't required to give you back your phone if you don't.
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Phone searches at borders have nothing to do with the COVID.