Are visitors to the US now required to produce their phone and password to allow immigration to look at messages?
It's been a very long time (1972) since I traveled outside the US, so I'm obviously not up to speed on international travel, but I am really surprised that people are not permitted to cross international boundaries without producing a phone for inspection.
I wonder what usually travels if one travels with a burner phone (a phone obviously barely previously used) to the US, or in other places where one would not want to risk their phone getting confiscated. Is there any experience on that? Should one try to build some plausible deniability on that (eg use lightly a phone for a while for it to at least appear used)?
Iirc a judge stopped the systematic requirement to inspect, but if you're not a citizen and refuse they can put you in the deportation gulag for a couple weeks and I guess not look at the phone. Not legal advice.
No, sorry, I understand it was clear it could happen in the late XVIII century. Hence some definite effort to avoid bad turns. Hence engineering with care, hence maintenance.
Signals had been there. And the dangers were "known knowns".
Not sure what you mean by "here" and where you see the distinction. It's still in the "Americans doing bad things to foreigners" category. There's no distinction. It's just that rejecting some French on the border is just relatively minor bad thing, compared to materially supporting genocide.
I would be interested in knowing to what extent the HN back history shows evidence of webscraping, and to what extent there is evidence this social network (because it is one) is feeding the same information space that US Customs and Immigration use to determine who to pull out of the line.
It's been a very long time (1972) since I traveled outside the US, so I'm obviously not up to speed on international travel, but I am really surprised that people are not permitted to cross international boundaries without producing a phone for inspection.