For all you "load takers" - reword those Scruff profiles.

[Beancounter]

http://www.dailyxtra.com/canada/news-and-ideas/news/us-customs-block-canadian-man-reading-scruff-profile-215531

 

 

I thought the human race had evolved beyond this but apparently not.

[escortrod]

Wow. I'll be going through my own phones with a fine-toothed comb from now on.

[LivingnLA]

Welcome to the "new" America started by Regan's "war on drugs," accelerated by Bush Jr. "war on terror," continued by Obama, and exploited by 45. We are well on the way to authoritarian corporate plutocracy.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

This is why you do a couple of things when traveling in or out of the States:

 

1. Encrypt everything you travel with and never agree to an unwarranted search of your technology

2. Make sure you have a good attorney on speed dial

[+ dupontversDC]

This is why you do a couple of things when traveling in or out of the States:

 

1. Encrypt everything you travel with and never agree to an unwarranted search of your technology

2. Make sure you have a good attorney on speed dial

 

That won't help if you're not an American. They will just deny entry if you don't agree to the search.

[bigvalboy]

That won't help if you're not an American. They will just deny entry if you don't agree to the search.

 

It's the Canadians...I've had friends turned back and put on the next flight out.

[+ dupontversDC]

It's the Canadians...I've had friends turned back and put on the next flight out.

 

Oh yeah, they can be bad as well. The most questions I've gotten at any border in the world.

[+ SundayZip]

Before I cross a border, I remove everything from my cell phone and laptop that could be incriminating. This includes "extra" google accounts and apps as well as email accounts that I use to correspond with escorts (also clean up cache and "deleted" storage). I make sure everything is backed up to cloud accounts first and leave no trace of accounts on my devices. I leave plenty of accounts and other stuff there for border officials to sift through, but it's all g-rated. Once I get to my destination, I download/reinstall what I need from my cloud backups. It seems very cloak and dagger but I've heard too many horror stories about what can happen going through immigration and customs.