Just like going to china.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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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.
Easy fix for me I just won't go.
"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.
I had to go for work. I have a Nexus card and traveled very low key so I didn't have any issues. I've told my company that I'm not interested in traveling to the US unless absolutely necessary. I have the advantage of being a white man in my late 50s.
Don't keep anything incriminating on your phone, yeah american border guards but also the fucking RCMP likes to grab phones.
Wondering when my publishing record qualifies me for asylum.
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.
Subject to and having it happen are different.
Also as a third party observer of this conversation, stop being a dick
I've travelled to dozens of countries and the only one where my phone was searched was the US. They searched a sanitized decoy phone. My actual phone was at home safe and sound. I didn't cross my arms and stomp my feet and say I was never doing back because I'm not a petulant, entitled child. I understand that I am subject to the laws of the country that I'm visiting and go prepared. I think that anyone who swears that they are never going to visit a country that searched their sister's phone to make sure she wasn't walking into being human trafficked is someone that we can quite happily do without visiting our country.
If that's being a dick then I'm a dick.
That's not what makes you a dick. Your attitude, word choice, and insistence on being right is what's making you a dick in my eyes.
However I just saw you're an engineer so I'll subtract 10 dick points because I know most of y'all can't even help yourselves from thinking you're the absolute authority on what's right and wrong.
I'm not insisting on being right. I am right.
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.
What the actual fuck is going on with my country?!? For fuck sake, not all of us are fascist bellends.
Things are still gonna get worse, we're not gonna get through this until their actions hurt so many people that enough of them get fed up and it leads to one of those belgrade or hungary sized protests
You’re talking about a country that largely lives with its head in the sand. America is notorious for avoiding the news, especially world news. The fact that any is ingested as all is likely thanks to social media. (Im talking large strokes, middle of the bell curve behaviors). As long as the family unit is ok, people generally think they’re ok, and live with blinders for anything outside of that. This life approach has existed long before Trump was even a blip in politics.
Remember, inertia is a seismic, global driving force of action for much of humanity.
I think it would likely take everyone’s personal house burning down in tandem to inspire mass action and those who still had houses would still function via the force of inertia propelling them through their daily habits, ignoring everyone else.
I say that as an American. I don’t like it, but it’s true. That and liberals a very un unified and tend not to like each other. A lot of gatekeeping takes place there rather than uniting and doing, always has. It’s a scattered, messy, un unified party.
In addition, there was another post made in response to a “do something” rant that I think sums up the other piece in play.
“I don’t know how to start a riot.”
Which is a fair point. How? Seriously. And where do you find people when your full personal circle is 2-7 individuals (if you have friends at all, it’s a major problem people seek therapy for these days). and half of the people who are friends with are either MAGA or a dissociated young man who spends all their free time behind a screen engaged in escapism.
We’re kinda screwed on the psychology side over here.
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A third of you are fascist bellends, a third are fighting against the fascist bellends .... and a third are just standing there doing nothing.
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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.
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I actually live in the US and am considering a burner for when I travel.
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There's something ironic about reading this with a Home Depot (huge Trump supporter) ad embedded in it.
Turn off your phone before going through customs or tsa. They can’t compel you to give your password out, but biometrics don’t fall under that category.
better to get a cheap burner phones, than through that hassle.
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If you really need to go to the US - Don't bring any electronic devices with you through security or while transitioning through borders.
Leave your devices at home. Bring a single function camera with you if you want.
Once you get across the border ... buy a new or used phone. If you have friends or family waiting for you, ask them to get you a phone, maybe even an old phone or get them to buy a used phone that you can use during your stay (pay them to get it of course).
Set up your new phone - load your data through cloud based systems ... if you are organized enough, you can set up a cloud based password manager to handle all your other data services.
Then when you leave, reformat and reset your phone and either try to sell off the phone you just bought, give it away or just toss it.
Go through security again without a device.
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