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This just sounds like an attempt to keep individuals of certain backgrounds out of a country. Ask a lot of invasive information and then refuse them entry. Entr

by AJ007 14y ago

This just sounds like an attempt to keep individuals of certain backgrounds out of a country. Ask a lot of invasive information and then refuse them entry. Entry information such as this should be aggregated in to travel warnings given about a particular country to minimize wasting a citizen time & money. Stories on how foreign countries treat privacy are important. American companies, in some part, have turned places like China in to zero-privacy zones that would have left George Orwell's head spinning. The post-FB generation of start ups should take very hard lines on privacy and build tools that employ obfuscation & client side decryption. For example, when logging in from an unverified sources (or foreign IP), the email account could reveal only commercial email. Sadly that isn't what is happening. Just today I got a pop up for Dropbox containing a pre-checked box to "Automatically import when removable devices are connected." Import what? All photos. Sorry if I don't want to store pictures of my girlfriends naked in my Dropbox account. By the way, what country is known for harassing Americans at their border: Canada. I'd rather travel to Mexico in the middle of a drug war.

pyre 14y ago
By the way, what country is known for harassing Americans at their border: Canada. I'd rather travel to Mexico in the middle of a drug war. I've had the opposite experience. As an American citizen, I've gotten a worse experience going Canada => US than vice-versa. I've personally only been harassed once by Canadian border patrol, and at one point I was crossing the border every day for work (note: This is without any sort of 'special' clearance like the Nexus Pass). That said, I went to Tijuana once when there was apparently a 3-day riot at some high-security prison nearby and it took 4 hours in a 2-mile long line to get back across the border. I'd imagine that a drug war would be even worse.
- Canada 14y ago
  It's a disgrace in both directions. Neither Americans or Canadians should tolerate the rude and invasive treatment we suffer at our borders.
marcf 14y ago
AJ007 wrote: > This just sounds like an attempt to keep individuals of certain backgrounds out of a country. Absolutely correct. The security officials believed that the individuals where pro-Palestinian activists. Here is a quote and article that details this: "The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country." http://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-activist-says-she-was-expelled-for-refusing-to-log-in-to-her-email-at-the-airport/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-activist-says-s...

by AJ007 14y ago

pyre 14y ago

By the way, what country is known for harassing Americans at their border: Canada. I'd rather travel to Mexico in the middle of a drug war. I've had the opposite experience. As an American citizen, I've gotten a worse experience going Canada => US than vice-versa. I've personally only been harassed once by Canadian border patrol, and at one point I was crossing the border every day for work (note: This is without any sort of 'special' clearance like the Nexus Pass). That said, I went to Tijuana once when there was apparently a 3-day riot at some high-security prison nearby and it took 4 hours in a 2-mile long line to get back across the border. I'd imagine that a drug war would be even worse.

Canada 14y ago
It's a disgrace in both directions. Neither Americans or Canadians should tolerate the rude and invasive treatment we suffer at our borders.

marcf 14y ago

AJ007 wrote: > This just sounds like an attempt to keep individuals of certain backgrounds out of a country. Absolutely correct. The security officials believed that the individuals where pro-Palestinian activists. Here is a quote and article that details this: "The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evidence. The 42-year-old American of Palestinian descent refused and was swiftly expelled from the country." http://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-activist-says-she-was-expelled-for-refusing-to-log-in-to-her-email-at-the-airport/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-palestinian-activist-says-s...