A growing number of legal U.S. residents and visa holders are being detained or deported after border agents inspect their phones and social media.
  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
    521·
    2 days ago

    Here’s what travelers should know: “This site isn’t available in your region | usatoday.com”

    Yeah very cool. Also I presume that translates to “We can’t be fucked to care about user privacy enough to comply with GDPR”. And also “We can’t be fucked to know what the EU is”. Because they are blocking access to me here in Switzerland, outside the EU, where GDPR doesn’t apply.

    • rippersnapper@lemm.ee
      14·
      2 days ago

      Buy a burner phone. Use a newly created email. Don’t install any of your socials (not even lemmy).

      Use only Signal (with messages auto deleted after being read) to be in touch with the really close friends and family.

      Don’t bring your personal laptop.

      If it’s a longish stay you may install socials a few days after completing immigration. But don’t use fingerprint or Face ID in that case.

      • bishbosh@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        The neat part of this is then getting detained for even longer for “suspicious activity”

        • rippersnapper@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 day ago

          Hopefully the respective country’s embassy and place of work (outside of work, study I don’t see why anyone would want to go to that hellscape) can step in. Like check in with your significant other post landing when you’re waiting at immigration checkpoint. And if you’re not heard from after that, alarm bells should go off and embassies should be informed.