This is Orwellian. I’ve already been warned to avoid travelling to the US if at all possible, but didn’t realise it was at the “scrub your phone” point
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We've told everyone we know who is crossing the border to take a burner or if you can't: factory reset and encrypt your phone before crossing, just in case they find reason to persecute you in a stray social or text.
This is absolutely horrifying!! And needs to be read. To all those who say you have nothing to be afraid of if you are here legally and innocent blah blah blah, they have never gone through struggles with the administration.
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Used to live there. Been back 30+ times. Will never go back again.
And none of my security colleagues thought I was overreacting