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How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by dylan604 »

AstralStorm wrote: post #284
dylan604 wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would definitely come across as suspicious to any border inspection. I have no Google apps, I have no social media apps. I have very few apps at all. I definitely qualify as someone that would be the type to wipe their phone. Also, my photos would definitely look like something someone staged to show activity, as the vast majority of my photos are of my fur babies. I don't do selfies, so that would be sus too. My b…

Someone needs to implement an application that fakes these things convincingly...

Then the storm troopers would just look to see if you had that app

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Post by jncfhnb »

xingped wrote: post #176
jncfhnb wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really feel like point number two weakens your overall point here

That businesses are allowed to surprise you with unexpected fees is a negative thing. How can you interpret it otherwise?

It’s just kind of silly to say “we have a tipping culture” in the same argument as “we just illegally deported a guy to El Salvador”

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Post by anon291 »

kleiba wrote: post #113

> Before traveling, back up your devices so you don’t lose anything permanently. Then delete anything you’re worried about being misinterpreted or saved by the government. That can include conversations that compromise the privacy of the people on the other end. You might delete messages about politics, contact information for political dissidents, apps that save offline copies of sensitive documents like Google Docs…

Hmmm. And yet this is normal for entering just about every other country.

The people being deported are those calling for genocide. Good riddance. You do not have a right to come to this country to organize a foreign country's wars.

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Post by anon291 »

dboreham wrote: post #139
root_axis wrote: post #122

Too technical and nerve-racking for my loved ones traveling across the border. The solution most people I know (who are not born in the u.s.) have landed on is don't post or share any political articles, memes or reels, especially in DMs. If someone sends you political content, delete the message afterwards. The silver lining is that eschewing that content has some mental health benefits. I would imagine that stories…

The solution for my family: don't travel to the US until the fascist regime is ousted.

Yeah this is why I don't travel in most of Europe

Re: How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S.

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Post by anon291 »

kashunstva wrote: post #274
arnonejoe wrote: post #155

I think this article is factually incorrect on one point. You cannot be detained for not providing the contents to your phone. That is absurd.

> You cannot be detained for not providing the contents to your phone. That is absurd. Yet there are comments form U.S. citizens elsewhere here that testify to having been detained at the U.S. border. They seem to have wide latitude in deciding who needs more scrutiny.

Americans really like to criticize America and have no idea how things are in other countries

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Post by seattle_spring »

soraminazuki wrote: post #298
beloch wrote: post #201

>Don’t just take a wiped phone: If you are especially worried about your data, you may think about wiping your phone or computer entirely before a trip and restoring from a backup later. However, a nearly blank device can create its own problems. Wipe your phone. If more people do this before travelling to the U.S. it'll quickly become less "suspicious". This is a privacy issue. I don't have anything to hide, but I a…

The problem is convincing the public to do this. That's going to be an uphill struggle considering the inconveniences of wiping and restoring a phone. The chilling effects these kinds of policies have on people is another major factor. The alarming thing is, we all do have something to hide now, unless you're full MAGA. When anything vaguely critical of the current administration can be used as grounds for detention…

Hopefully the absolutely bonkers level of irony that these policies have been put in place by people insisting to be "free speech absolutists" is not lost on them.

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Post by lern_too_spel »

anon291 wrote: post #303
kleiba wrote: post #113

> Before traveling, back up your devices so you don’t lose anything permanently. Then delete anything you’re worried about being misinterpreted or saved by the government. That can include conversations that compromise the privacy of the people on the other end. You might delete messages about politics, contact information for political dissidents, apps that save offline copies of sensitive documents like Google Docs…

Hmmm. And yet this is normal for entering just about every other country. The people being deported are those calling for genocide. Good riddance. You do not have a right to come to this country to organize a foreign country's wars.

We know that there are also Israelis calling for the genocide of Palestinians. None are being deported. I'd be willing to believe that some of the students being deported have called for genocide, but the government must produce evidence. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/court-tells-government...

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Post by stevenwoo »

lawlessone wrote: post #75
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #57

Also known as "how to visit detention centers". The amount of bad advice here is staggering. You are not James Bond or some kind of ninja Seals secret agent. You are a nobody attempting to enter a country, and you will be pissing off the border police. Have some common sense.

>Have some common sense. The common sense would be don't go to countries where you risk being immediately sent home or to a slave colony in El Salvador for writing something mean about its president.

Some of the college students with revoked visas just happened to be in the vicinity of a protest (near commute to their apartment ) against Israel killing so many civilians, and then there’s the batch who had speeding tickets. They are hellbent on deporting criminals of any level and thought criminals to meet quota. So I would not trust anything to be benign when viewed by US agents.

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Post by lern_too_spel »

anon291 wrote: post #306
kashunstva wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You cannot be detained for not providing the contents to your phone. That is absurd. Yet there are comments form U.S. citizens elsewhere here that testify to having been detained at the U.S. border. They seem to have wide latitude in deciding who needs more scrutiny.

Americans really like to criticize America and have no idea how things are in other countries

These Americans understand that they can change the laws in their own country but not in others.
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