Comment by soco
12 days ago
Venezuela you say? The US would be checking my entire social media history, not only what is on the phone, if I ever plan to enter the US.
12 days ago
Venezuela you say? The US would be checking my entire social media history, not only what is on the phone, if I ever plan to enter the US.
I'm entering the US for work in a few weeks and I plan on taking burner devices.
You might need to disclose social media accounts, phone numbers, email accounts, and a lot of other information, regardless of your burner: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo
Depends on when that goes into effect and how thoroughly it's actually implemented.
Isn't that highly suspicious? Or are you preparing burners with years of alternate social profiles activity? Because blatantly lying to the authorities is not something I'd take easily...
Why lie? If they ask you why there isn’t anything on there, just say you brought a cheap replacement phone because you didn’t want to lose or break your expensive daily device while traveling. Or because you don’t want it stolen or hacked when you’re in a foreign country. All valid reasons. Pick and choose whatever is most accurate for you.
Fortunately you can still tell the US border authorities you have a new phone, without consequences.
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