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While protecting your data privacy is important, I’d be more concerned about being detained without reason or recourse. https://apnews.com/article/border-touri
by latexr 2y ago
While protecting your data privacy is important, I’d be more concerned about being detained without reason or recourse.
https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-detention-immigration-408cd27338e8065268fabc835f8b0c34 https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-d...
Here’s a better tip: Don’t travel to the US. They are making it very clear they don’t want anyone else there.
- unixhero 2y agoBut I like to drink in Austin!
- Gud 2y agoFor beer, Antwerp. For cocktails, somewhere in the UK, probably?
- cudgy 2y agoSeems like it’s just as bad in Europe, even when not crossing borders https://www.politico.eu/article/police-can-access-mobile-phone-data-for-minor-crimes-eus-top-court-rules/ https://www.politico.eu/article/police-can-access-mobile-pho...
- latexr 2y agoThe US looks through your phone and locks you up for no reason (and I’m arguing the latter is worse than the former) and your response is the EU is “just as bad” because it does the former (which is the least bad of the two)?
- cudgy 2y agoWhat’s bad is the lack of ability to look at one’s own area of the world and recognize the faults in your own backyard while wailing about equal faults in other areas of the world as if they are unique.