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The "give up your passwords" thing is not a real thing. It's only happened occasionally in one-off scenarios where power-tripping border agents overstepped thei
by sushisource 8y ago
The "give up your passwords" thing is not a real thing. It's only happened occasionally in one-off scenarios where power-tripping border agents overstepped their bounds, and I think has maybe been proposed, but is in no way an actual law.
- thebooktocome 8y agoYou're being downvoted because it is a real thing. Even US citizens can be strongly encouraged (with threat of detainment) to turn over their electronic devices and surrender their passwords when crossing the border -- and remember, "the border" is legally defined as any location within 100 miles of a point of entry. From https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/05/576139303/u-s-customs-and-border-patrol-sets-new-rules-for-searching-electronic-devices https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/05/576139303... > CBP agents inspected 30,200 phones and other devices during [fiscal year 2017]. Therefore, it does happen somewhat frequently.
- raquo 8y agoI can stand behind ideological refusal to travel to the US because of this, but in practical terms for an individual traveller a 0.007% chance is does not qualify as "somewhat frequently".
- vesrah 8y agoYou probably should have also posted the line right below the one you quoted, which shows that it is really not that common. > Officials stress that those searches represent just a tiny fraction of all arriving international travelers — .007 percent.