Comment by throwuxiytayq
1 day ago
Disgusting. I’ve never had to let anyone touch my phone in my entire life in any country I’ve visited.
Is there a list of countries that does this? At this point it’s obvious I won’t ever be traveling to the US, but I’m curious if genuinely authoritarian countries like China are actually less of a police state at the border than the USA.
I think almost all countries do this if your name is on a list (as this person's is). It's the nature of the lists and what gets your name added to them that varies from country to country.
Visiting another country is a privilege, not a right.
This is a US citizen, so that’s a moot point
That, whatever it means, cannot mean losses of personal rights.
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Rights are universal, whether a state cares about them or not.
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I've been to China recently. No phone search whatsoever. Their Internet is behind the famous Great Firewall though, but there is no issue using a (foreigner-only) unlocked sim or e-sim to access the rest of the Internet.
I travelled to the US three times and once had my devices checked. Travelled to China more than 50 times, never had anything checked.
That's because they already checked in advance :)
UK passed a law for this recently. Germany has been doing it for a while.