Comment by hn_submit
10 hours ago
What about simply not using a smartphone and accessing your data via internet when you're in the country? You could use Mega (secure file storage) to access your files, for example.
I wonder if border agents could coerce you into giving access to your internet file storage, though.
I believe they can. I believe they can even request your social media credentials, despite that being against the ToS for those sites. It's not against the law to refuse, but they can and will reject entry on that basis.
That's interesting. I don't even know most of my passwords (thanks to password managers).
Don't worry, they can ask for that password too :D
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Remember that the creator of Mega is getting extradited to the USA - again - a country where he's never been, by the way - for basically this crime (using encryption).
AFAIK in the US their policies do not allow them to access your cloud stored data.