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My female Canadian friend was interrogated in a Canadian airport by an American border agent because she made the unfortunate mistake of having a connecting fli
by always_good 10y ago
My female Canadian friend was interrogated in a Canadian airport by an American border agent because she made the unfortunate mistake of having a connecting flight in the States on the way to visit me in Mexico.
The agent asked her if she was a "good girl" and then demanded access to her phone's Facebook Messenger to see if she'd been offering or planning sex services.
She of course complied. What else are you going to do? Cancel your plans and stay home during your vacation leave?
It's a great job to have if you're a creep and/or resent women.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoPlease report this incident to US Customs and Border Patrol, as well as DHS. https://www.cbp.gov/contact https://www.cbp.gov/contact https://www.dhs.gov/department-white-pages https://www.dhs.gov/department-white-pages EDIT: Sorry to piggyback. For your own security/privacy when traveling (I'm sorry, as a US citizen), bring a dumb phone just for calling, and wipe your iPhone (if its an iPhone) before transiting a customs checkpoint. Restore from iCloud when you're safely out of the airport. If asked what the dumb phone is for, "I break my iPhone all the time."
- dingaling 10y ago> Restore from iCloud when you're safely out of the airport. "Sir, your phone appears to have been reset. Please connect it to iCloud and sync now". If they can compel access to apps and social media why would iCloud et al be any different?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoKeep a separate sparse iCloud account if you don't think you have the soft skills to work around that unlikely scenario.
- sqeaky 10y agoWill it stay unlikely in the long term?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoWho knows. You won't like my advice though: leave the country if the surveillance state reaches a crescendo. As a tech worker, I'm employable anywhere in the world, and can have my family and all of our belongings out of the country in 12 hours. My heart goes out to everyone who doesn't have such flexibility. It's not fair to those impacted that these are the times we live in. That's not to say we give up. We try to fix this fuckery until the very end.
- masonic 10y agoHad she left the secured area of the airport to go outside or offsite and then re-enter? I can't imagine American DHS agents roaming free in a Canadian airport... especially confronting a Canadian citizen inside Canada.
- chrismcb 10y agoYou typically go through passport control for the US at the Canadian airport if you are flying to the US.
- rabboRubble 10y agoThis sort of shit is why I go through FB periodically and delete nearly everything. What bullshit.