Source: pcmag.com Phone searches at the US border are more common than ever. Here’s how to protect your privacy before you travel and what to do if CBP asks for your device. If you’re headed to the airport, you’re probably carrying your phone, loaded with personal information. Your boarding pass, flight information, hotel reservations—all of it is there right alongside other details like your social media, emails, photos, and more. That’s why handing it over to a stranger—especially while traveling internationally—can be scary. These days, phone searches at the…
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Homeland Security Lied About Child Porn To Search Activist’s Phone
Source: reason.com 10/21/26 The feds are charging Samuel Tunick for destroying his phone at the border. Court documents show that they refused him a lawyer and lied about why he was searched. One of the unfortunate quirks of the American system is that you can’t lie to the government, but the government can lie to you. Samuel Tunick found himself on the receiving end of this setup last year at Atlanta International Airport. When agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked for his phone password, he allegedly…
Read MoreEurope stopped stamping your passport. It scans your fingers now, and it’s keeping score.
Source: msn.com 10/8/26 The passport stamp, that smudgy bit of ink that quietly covered for a lot of sloppy day-counting, is on its way out of Europe. In its place: a camera, a fingerprint scanner, and a system that never forgets a date. Since 10 April 2026, the EU’s Entry/Exit System has been fully operational across 29 European countries. If your travel plans involve more than a long weekend on the Schengen side of the map, this changes more than you’d think. What happens at the border now Instead of…
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Read MoreDomestic Travel 2026
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Read MoreEU’s new Entry/Exit System launches this week. What to know about visas, insurance and delays
Source: msn.com 10/5 As the 12 October launch of the six-month rollout of the EU’s entry-exit system (EES) approaches, a number of myths and misconceptions about what it really means for travellers have surfaced. While some claim that non-EU travellers will need to prove their travel insurance, others believe that the EES is being implemented as punishment for Brexit. But how much of the speculation is true and which claims are myths? We took a look at some of the most common misconceptions. … The EES system will only apply…
Read MorePassport Applicants May Have To Affirm That They Are ‘Not Required To Register’ As Sex Offenders
Source: reason.com 3/14/25 The proposed State Department policy would add to the irrational burdens that registrants face. Under a proposed State Department policy, U.S. passport applicants would have to affirm that they are “not required to register” as sex offenders. If they are “required to register,” they would have to submit a “supplementary explanatory statement under oath.” The State Department says that change, which it announced in a Federal Register notice seeking public comment last month, is “in accordance with” the International Megan’s Law (IML), which requires “unique passport identifiers” for “covered sex offenders.” Although that 2016 law…
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Read MoreDomestic Travel 2024
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Read MoreDomestic Travel 2023
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Read MoreFederal Judge Makes History in Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant
Source: eff.org 5/30/23 With United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), a district court judge in New York made history by being the first court to rule that a warrant is required for a cell phone search at the border, “absent exigent circumstances” (although other district courts have wanted to do so). EFF is thrilled about this decision, given that we have been advocating for a warrant for border searches of electronic devices in the courts and Congress for nearly a decade. If the case is appealed to the…
Read MoreMan Offers First Class Seat To Child In Coach, American Airlines Suspects He’s A Predator
Source: viewfromthewing.com 2/23/23 An American Airlines ConciergeKey passenger, one of the carrier’s top customers, shared to social media that they were flying from Portland to Dallas on Tuesday’s flight 2655 and wound up suspected of being a child predator – because they tried to do a good deed, giving up their first class seat for an unaccompanied minor seated in coach. They were heading to Dallas to connect to a British Airways flight to London. Pre-boarding (since ConciergeKey members board ahead of first class, even), they noticed “a very young…
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