I wonder if you don't take your phone if they consider that suspicious.
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At this point why do we even have the 4th? Seems like there's always a loophole available to be exploited.
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Anyone selling cheap burner phones to use exclusively for border issues like this? I'd rather not use my actual phone but I don't think I can travel without one.
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I'm Australian and last night the wife and I was watching something on YouTube and a flashy tourism add pops up encouraging us to visit the US. Without prompting we both started giggling simultaneously. Right, as if...
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What's to stop you from factory re-setting your phone when you approach the border? You can sync it back up once you've cleared security.
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For certain definitions of "legal", given that the fourth amendment makes no such allowance.
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Hasn't this been going on since at least 9/11?
They've been doing that already for ages. It wasn't legal? What changes now?
FedEx your phone into the country when traveling into the US... Meet it here.
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This is disappointing, but not surprising in the slightest. However, this could be far more concerning than "mere" privacy violations. This lays groundwork for the ability of the US government to restrict flow of information physically stored on electronic devices into the territory they occupy. Though logistically complicated, I would certainly not put it past a fascist regime to implement such a policy and it would be disconcertingly easy to hide such a policy.
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This is more relevant thane ever: https://youtu.be/7lGrKW4A_xc
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