Wired is lost. If you dont offer up credible social media accounts or if you have a wiped phone, they probably wont let you in. These people still believe that the rules apply but they simply dont. There are no guarantees.
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/guide-getting-past-customs-digital-privacy-intact/
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Last time I travelled to the US, I brought my old phone. It had plenty of text messages, a few photos of family and nature, and nothing else. They didn’t check it, but I guessed it would pass the “not a burner” vibe. Now I’m wondering, though, how people would react to me having no social media presence (other than Reddit at that time, which I accessed via browser). Not that I’m planning to travel to the US ever again, but I wonder whether there’s a market for perfectly inoffensive fake social media accounts.
oldfart@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Am i fucked if i haven’t posted on facebook since like 2014?
jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Make a fake account and just post random things so the government doesn’t think your lame when they check your social media.
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Don’t visit unless it is a life or death situation. I wouldn’t want to go into country that wants to finger print me, hand over social media, and copy my devices.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
The fingerprinting thing has been going on for decades. I remember having to get fingerprinted to enter in 2015
Engywuck@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’ll actively try to avoid that. There’s been a time in which I thought it could have been interesting to visit that country, but the time has passed.
liverbe@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s so sad. We have a beautiful country and most people are very nice.
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Got to be really deranged to vote for a candidate that ran on a platform of revenge and hate, and there’s at the minimum 70 million of those types of Americans which outnumbers many individual countries. Americans suck and don’t seem nice. Too many bad apples.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I guess so, but recent news aren’t exactly inspiring. I’m really sorry for you (and I say that from an EU country with shitty politicians as well).
capuccino@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve never travel outside of Mexico before, but let’s say, I do want to travel to a country that do not ask you for a visa, BUT, to get to that country my plane do need to make a stopover in the US. Do I do need visa just for that stopover in the US?
Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Not if you transfer directly to another plane, you only need a Visa if you go through passport control.
njordomir@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Most airports do it like this, but I’ve been to places hat need a transit visa just to get to your next flight. Odds are you are correct for a US connection.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
ship it to your hotel and travel with a burner til you reach your destination.
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Step 1: don’t
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 5 weeks ago
It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:
whostosay@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sure are a lot of 5eyes countries in that list. I’m pretty sure we don’t have closer allies than that. Well aside from Russia now
KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
I wish it were so easy. I’ll be going there later this year because family. Ugh
stardust@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’d make them come to me unless it was someone on their deathbed. A literal life or death scenario.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You can always get a new family if you’re not in prison
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Unless you’re a blonde head blue eyed Caucasian with no tattoos, I wouldn’t personally risk it. ICE used to be at least microscopically reasonable, they wouldn’t detain people who demonstradedly weren’t illegals. Not now though.
You have to wonder what the hell their end game is.