How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The fingerprinting thing has been going on for decades. I remember having to get fingerprinted to enter in 2015

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not if you transfer directly to another plane, you only need a Visa if you go through passport control.

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    • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ship it to your hotel and travel with a burner til you reach your destination.

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • liverbe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s so sad. We have a beautiful country and most people are very nice.

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    • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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).

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Am i fucked if i haven’t posted on facebook since like 2014?

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    • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Make a fake account and just post random things so the government doesn’t think your lame when they check your social media.

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  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• lmuel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Step 1: don’t

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  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wish it were so easy. I’ll be going there later this year because family. Ugh

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can always get a new family if you’re not in prison

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    • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d make them come to me unless it was someone on their deathbed. A literal life or death scenario.

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:

    • Australia
    • Canada
    • Germany
    • Netherlands
    • New Zealand
    • United Kingdom

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    • whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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