How a French scholar was treated at US airport

Re:How a French scholar was treated at US airport by coldpie on Monday February 27, 2017 @08:41AM (#13744031)

That's kind of a worthless article. What's the solution, then? Just accept that all of your private data will be copied by the government? Don't travel at all?

Edit: Also, the same guy explicitly encourages lying about your social media accounts two posts prior to that one. Which is it, chief?

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Re:How a French scholar was treated at US airport by d_theorist on Monday February 27, 2017 @08:57AM (#13744140)

I don't think it's worthless to point out that a number of strategies are bad, and likely counterproductive. It might just be the case that there are no good foolproof methods for getting through the US border without any negative effects on your privacy or convenience.

The only real solution is to change government policy.

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Re:How a French scholar was treated at US airport by coldpie on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:12AM (#13744274)

The evidence seems at odds with this guy's suggestions. We've heard lots of stories about people being stopped and required to hand over devices. I'm not aware of any stories of people being stopped simply for not having devices.

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