Very telling that USians are being Berlined and the reactions here are pretty mild. At least in Berlin they had communism inside. In the US is just a hellscape of late stage capitalism.
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As if there weren't enough reasons already to avoid visiting this shithole country.
You also have to provide all your social media handles when applying for a visa. Even a tourist visa so they can check if you ever posted anything negative about the US or it's leader.
What if we all start giving them the same handles?
Just give them a second facebook account filled with thousands of images of MLP porn.
Or a youtube channel with dozens of variations of the "Most annoying sound" scene from Dumb and Dumber with the screeching repeated for hours and hours.
MLP?
Is it a requirement to be on social media, to enter the us?
I don't know if any phones have this, but on a PC you can set up multiple partitions and have the password you entered determine which is logged into on boot. Then if the ICE brownshirts demand to see your sick memes, you can show them a boring install with some basic apps, instead of the install where you're informing the denizens of the interwebs that Trump raped kids and the entire GOP is covering it up.
The brown shirts just clone the whole drive and hand it to the egg heads.
I have a question.. there’s data on my phone and other devices that are protected under an active NDA. I am legally obligated to prevent disclosure of that information.
So.. what happens then?
An NDA is just a contract, an actual law always trumps it.
Tbh I'm shocked it wasn't already. Like I thought the border has been a "no rights zone" for as long as I've been alive.
it seems like this a re-affirmation of it -- guaranteeing that it'll stay in the books for the rest of our lives
quietly
- Travel with a cheap burner phone.
- Just before returning change your password to a long randomly generated string of letters and numbers.
- Write it down and mail it your home address.
- Lock your phone when you arrive at customs.
- Tell border agents what you did and that you can't unlock it until you get your letter next week.
Thus they only have 2 options: A. Seize it and have the lab unlock a burner with nothing on it. B. Or they can just let it go. In either case they're suckers wasting their own time instead of yours.
Option 3: They just detain you until you hand over the password. You are allowed to call someone to retrieve it from your mail.
I can't unlock my phone. How am I supposed to call anyone?
I guess I'm old enough to remember calling people from other phones than your own
Which laws are we supposed to obey nowadays? It's all very confusing.
In the case of US citizens there is no need, there they know already the content of the phones
Well that's convenient, now they don't have to do it illegally anymore.
With protesting and dissent nearing illegality, It's no longer safe to have password managers, browser history or social media on your phone. (at borders for now)
I see a lot of people saying just shut it off. They will turn it on, tell you to unlock it, you refuse, they'll detain you, try tools to bypass, confiscate it (you need to make sure you get a receipt) and they'll let you out without it at some point. Even citizens can get detained for periods greater than 24 hours.
If you express any public dissent toward the administration, you should consider traveling with a dumb phone or a burner, not connected to your email/social online services/password systems.
So… traveling outside the US and think you want back in… break out that old phone and keep it effing clean for travel. Actual phone goes in to safety deposit box.
The land of the free eh?
Not any more, kids.
Liberal democracies are rare because they are so challenging to maintain.
Restore to default settings before crossing international borders.
My personal life is pretty damn boring, but regardless, every time I fly (even domestic) I wipe my phone beforehand and only keep emergency contacts.