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What is the worst that can happen to a non US citizen, who is not producing the passwords they demand? Being send back immediately and all belongings seized?
by biafra 10y ago
What is the worst that can happen to a non US citizen, who is not producing the passwords they demand?
Being send back immediately and all belongings seized?
Or only devices they do not get the decryption passwords for?
Detainment for how long?
Being charged with what?
- waqf 10y agoWell, the worst probably involves being abducted and tortured, but I'd expect that to be only if you were at least suspected of being a particular known person of interest. I think the worst likely case if you're just generally noncooperative is being detained for hours/days then sent back and banned from the US for life.
- anigbrowl 10y agoAll of teh above, being held incommunicado for up to 6 months. You can charged with anything someone feels like charging you with. You don't have to be given due process or convicted for that to justify immigration detention. Basically you have zero leverage except through your home country's diplomatic mission and/or Americans you are friends or relatives with.
- junto 10y agoIf I were the US government with aspirations of complete population control, I'd be using the NSA data secretly to build a database of every single person, and producing a "risk/threat score". Every action you take online will alter this score. Every person they are connected to would influence their score, not unlike Google PageRank. Slowly you build up a picture of every single citizen, and anyone visiting the US would also be subject to this, possibly triggered by a visa waiver program application or a visa application. By the time you land on US soil and your passport is scanned, the immigration agent will simply be warned that the traveller requires x, y, and z actions to be carried out. I'll get my tinfoil hat out now.