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I wonder what implications this would have for business travel. Devices may be required to be encrypted and giving a business password may violate employment la
by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I wonder what implications this would have for business travel. Devices may be required to be encrypted and giving a business password may violate employment law in the home country for non US travelers. It could be illegal to grant US border agents access to the phone and also illegal not to.
Even if you could grant access, businesses may very rightly feel the content shouldn’t be accessed by US border agents and if it’s stored by border agents, it means now some US government server could fall under the juris diction of GDPR or something (eg my work phone or laptop had a photo with sensitive customer data or something).
On top of that, it’s increasingly mandatory to use your personal phone for business data, eg PagerDuty, Slack, company email, company social media tools. So while it may be your personal device, you may still run into crazy conflicting issues of whether you are allowed to unlock it.
How are you going to comply with “delete my account” requests when some business data is on US government servers for 75 years?
US agencies have deeply poor and incompetent information security, so how long before this is subject to a data breach, or a rogue employee exfiltrating and selling it? Will people be able to sue the US government for substantial per-person damages when that happens?
The conflicting and incompatible privacy issues of this are bananas. What an arrogant and deeply stupid thing to do by the border agency.
- coronadisaster 6y agoBusinesses are first class citizens, unlike real people, so you should be ok.
- walterbell 6y agoSome businesses don't allow their corporate data to cross borders via devices, e.g. they can use VDI to keep all data under enterprise control except for pixel-level viewing.