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The saddest thing is this will be the sole reason to not travel to US. Sad, because I have family there now and I do love the people and the culture.
by pimeys 8y ago
The saddest thing is this will be the sole reason to not travel to US. Sad, because I have family there now and I do love the people and the culture.
- dTal 8y agoThe way to travel to the US will be to never physically bring personal data with you. They can't search what's not there.
- fredsted 8y agoYou can't win here. It will be suspicious to bring no devices, or devices that look like they've just been restored.
- anticensor 8y agoNot if you are poor enough.
- jkaplowitz 8y agoThat used to be true. Poor people can often afford a smartphone now, even in really poor countries like Ethiopia, not just the US. It may be a crappy old or limited model, but it doesn't have to be a feature phone.
- clouddrover 8y ago> It will be suspicious to bring no devices Just like the Chinese government's Integrated Joint Operations Platform surveillance software. "Not using a smartphone" is one of the 36 data points which mark you out as having "suspicious behaviour": https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/china-how-mass-surveillance-works-xinjiang https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/chin...
- pimeys 8y agoMy phone is an important part of my diabetes control. Travelling without or giving it away is not an option. I'll survive without it, but will lose the extra control of glucose in an already stressful situation.
- neuronic 8y agoThe "people and the culture" are what brought this forth.