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Are visitors to the US now required to produce their phone and password to allow immigration to look at messages? It's been a very long time (1972) since I tra
by keernan 2y ago
Are visitors to the US now required to produce their phone and password to allow immigration to look at messages?
It's been a very long time (1972) since I traveled outside the US, so I'm obviously not up to speed on international travel, but I am really surprised that people are not permitted to cross international boundaries without producing a phone for inspection.
- ty6853 2y agoIirc a judge stopped the systematic requirement to inspect, but if you're not a citizen and refuse they can put you in the deportation gulag for a couple weeks and I guess not look at the phone. Not legal advice.
- freehorse 2y agoI wonder what usually travels if one travels with a burner phone (a phone obviously barely previously used) to the US, or in other places where one would not want to risk their phone getting confiscated. Is there any experience on that? Should one try to build some plausible deniability on that (eg use lightly a phone for a while for it to at least appear used)?