Submission + - Your Digital Life Can Be Legally Seized at the Border 3
Toe, The writes: Quincy Larson from freeCodeCamp relates some frightening stories from U.S. citizens entering their own country, and notes that you don't have fourth and fifth amendment rights at the border. People can and have been compelled to give their phone password (or be detained indefinitely) before entering the U.S and other countries. Given what we keep on our phones, he concludes that it is now both easy and legal for customs and border control to access your whole digital life. And he provides some nice insights on how easy it is to access and store the whole thing, how widespread access would be to that data, and how easy it would be for the wrong hands to get on it. His advice: before you travel internationally, wipe your phone or bring/rent/buy a clean one.
Don't enter any nation (Score:2)
Carry a new work only computer/device that has a few productivity apps on brand new ssd or media.
Put brand new storage media into any camera like device.
Many computers have a MAC number on the device. A cheap used computer is often a risk if that MAC has been collected globally.
When applying for entry into another nation use your normal email account to keep track of the application.
If a nation then demands your email account pw, give it to them. They can read al
My advice (That I've actually given out) (Score:2)
Don't carry any digital device across a border without sanitizing it first.
Back up your data at home / the office before travelling, then wipe it off your device. Make your password something simple that you don't mind giving up to the border agents.
Don't have any apps installed or passwords saved for Facebook, Twitter, Slashdot or anything else. Don't even have them in your browser history.
If you need access to the information you're temporarily removing from the device, put it up on a secure Internet-ac