Encrypt and lock your electronic devices, because the border agents want to touch them:
Customs officers stationed at the American border and at airports searched an estimated 30,200 cellphones, computers and other electronic devices of people entering and leaving the United States last year — an almost 60 percent increase from 2016, according to Homeland Security Department data released on Friday.
Despite the surge, Customs and Border Protection officials said the searches affected fewer than 1 percent of the more than 300 million travelers who arrived in the United States last year.
Homeland Security officials say border searches are an important investigative tool and are used sparingly by its agents. "In this digital age, border searches of electronic devices are essential to enforcing the law at the U.S. border and to protecting the American people," said John Wagner, the deputy executive assistant commissioner at Customs and Border Protection. Mr. Wagner said the agency was committed to preserving the rights and civil liberties of travelers whose devices are searched.
Also at ABC.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday January 06 2018, @10:53PM (2 children)
If they ask you if you a social media accound and you say no its instantly suspicious.
Probably grounds enough to hook you up right then and there and frog march you to a holding cell.
You've after all, lied to a federal agent.
Even your account here at SN qualifies as social media.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @02:44AM (1 child)
Ha! That's why I don't have one! I'll be laughing all the way till the holding cell!
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday January 07 2018, @08:54PM
But to the holding cell you'll be going anyway.
Because you DO have a social media account somewhere.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.