The article discusses rising concerns about safety in traveling to the US, particularly due to extreme measures taken by the government at borders. Surveillance has escalated since 9/11, leading to extensive data collection practices that include social media details and online activity. The article highlights specific incidents where individuals faced detention or deportation based on their digital footprint, including deleted files. The Trump Administration's policies, aimed at identifying potential threats, have intensified these practices, making personal devices and information targets for border security.
Border management today is fueled by our data, but government officials want more. They want as much data as they can get to catch you out.
We've been working on border surveillance since 9/11, when governments began tracking you ahead of travel, profiling you at the border, and grabbing your fingerprints.
This slow burn of requesting and collating data has become a wholesale data grab, driven by the Trump Administration Executive Order 14161.
At the US border, your social media and your devices are at risk, making you a target. It wasn't always this way.
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