I gave up travelling to the US approximately at the intersection of the time that (a) automatic fingerprint scanners were brought in at US borders and (b) the T

I gave up travelling to the US approximately at the intersection of the time that (a) automatic fingerprint scanners were brought in at US borders and (b) the TFA lost a copy of all its own staff's confidential data. I can't afford to replace my fingerprints when the TFA discloses that data. Plus from other environments I know that my fingerprints don't scan very reliably for whatever reason. Also I realised that on every visit that I could remember I was getting my baggage searched like some kind of persona non grata, which annoyed me a lot when I thought about it. And this on various flavours of visa/waiver coming from the UK. So searching laptops etc just for the sake of it, never mind necessity, utility, privacy or courtesy, is a logical (unwelcoming) extension of this.