Don't carry digital data across any border, even if encrypted. Many countries have totally different standards over search and seizure at their borders to when you have gained entry and sometimes far worse for non citizens.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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Australia has full rights to search hardware on entry. Careful coming here too.
Exactly. Don't make assumptions just because you are travelling to a "friendly" country.
There's something ironic about reading this with a Home Depot (huge Trump supporter) ad embedded in it.
Just don't go at all.
This is the only solution. I would rather eat nails than go to the States again.
I read that as snails and was about to comment "bonjour" ... instead I did the joke in this meta way
Travel to the US and it’s your own fault. We have been warned.
My partner is a scientist and has to travel to the US for work later this year. We're both dreading it, given all these stories of people being detained at the border.
"Traveling to the US," are you actually mad??
It's fine, same as it always was crossing the border, just don't fuck around lying to border guards or announce you're taking bookings for tattoos this week in Seattle on Instagram. Basically the news has decided to publicize this shit like it wasn't happening 2 months ago either, same as how they focus on "kids in cages" only when a republican is president or plane crashes that 2 weeks there.
Just like going to china.
Ngl China didn’t touch my phone upon entry. Think my iris got scanned though and certainly got full palm printed.
One of the two people I know who have been to china had their phone taken for hours when they arrived. The other person reported much the same experience as you. The friend who had her phone taken was a US citizen but born of Chinese immigrants. The other who didn't get their phone taken was not. I can't help but think that her parents status there had something to do with.
That one born of Chinese immigrants would have been considered a citizen of China by the guards, not of the USA.
It's not that uncommon for border patrol to go through your phone. I went to Canada 6-7 years ago and they went through my sister's phone because she told them she wanted to meet a Canadian friend she had made online. Border patrol read their conversations while we waited in a confinement room. It was the last time I went to Canada
So they were trying to keep your sister from being human trafficked and you had a tantrum and refused to come back? Probably not a big loss for Canada.
No I went to Canada and had a great time. Since Canada will search your phone I calmly decided to vacation elsewhere. Really not a big deal.
Good luck finding anywhere else in the world where you aren't subject to the search of your electronics. Canada appreciates your decision not to visit again.
Cool. There really isn't anything there worth seeing except people with beady eyes and flapping heads. Btw your maple syrup is tasteless, overpriced, and something only a douche bag would enjoy.