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As a European I find it strange how the article and many comments here seem to focus only on it being US citizen's data being hovered up by the boarder control.
by MrDresden 4y ago
As a European I find it strange how the article and many comments here seem to focus only on it being US citizen's data being hovered up by the boarder control.
No one's private data should be taken without a legitimate cause, no matter their nationality.
- Dma54rhs 4y agoWhy strange if we very much do the same at external borders? Especially asylum seekers who get their phones confiscated but all in all the system is very similar when you entry outside Schengen, only imo Americans are more paranoid in a good way, about their privacy unlike euros.
- pessimizer 4y agoYou have to reset your perspective to a US one that believes that US laws only protect US citizens, and even those protections stop 100 miles from the border. It not at all evident that it is illegal for the US to summarily execute US citizens without trial if they are outside of US borders. The data protections of Europeans are without question non-existent. Europe would be upset if we did it anyway, since Europe depends on us to bypass its own domestic spying restrictions.