Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops

Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by microcolonel on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:07AM (#19563937)

This is not remotely unique to the U.S.

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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by realusername on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:12AM (#19563981)

No it's not but this kind of issue tends to happen more frequently in the US.

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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by Diederich on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:17AM (#19564036)

Honest question: do you know where I can find the data to support that?

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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by realusername on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:39AM (#19569604)

There's not going to be any data, border agencies are as non-transparent as you can get.

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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by rmdashrfstar on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:40AM (#19564254)

Anecdotally?

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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by coldtea on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @12:00PM (#19564448)

Yes, or as we used to call it back in the day "empirically".

Plus, it doesn't matter if it happens as much or more in some backwater third world country.

It's already enough of a problem that among first world countries the US is quite a pain in the ass airport control.

Heck, it's enough of a problem that it feels like a pain in the ass. It wont be less of a problem if per capita e.g. Belgium or Albania are worse...

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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by cylinder on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @12:44PM (#19564859)

There isn't data on this. This incident likely wasn't logged in any way. CBP is a rogue agency and the least transparent. They don't respond to FOIA anymore either.

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