which is legal in Canada, and a yes answer will get you blocked from entry.
Anyone who might run into border guards would be wise to have a burner cell phone and no puters on them.
There was a harrowing account by a journalist who recently got stopped going into Mexico at the Tijuana crossing, hauled out of his car, by OUR Border Patrol, intensely searched, they took his wallet and his driver's license, a Border guard took a picture of his driver's license with the the guard's own cellphone, he was interrogated rudely about what he was writing about in Mexico, who was he seeing, where, etc.
the reporter said he was shaking with rage by the time they let him go, but also shock that they can do this.
We have an American friend who visits us. Lives most of the time in Mexico. He flies into Houston from Mexico, picks up a rental car, drives east on I-10.
He was here in Feb. this year, and reported that as he passed a rest stop, a cop pulled him over ( rental car tags are suspicious to them) and the minute he showed his Mexico drivers license, the cop hit the radio and within 5 minutes 2 border Patrol vehicles showed up...they had been in the rest stop.
They demanded to know about any drugs, ignored his answers, searched the car including removing the back seats, and were not polite.
Our friend is well over 60, fortunately is is also very smart, so knew to downplay any outraged.
also was smart enough to not call attention to the vape pen in his shirt pocket, which they had ignored.
the minute I heard of bush's Homeland Security, and imposing TSA on us, it was obvious how this creeping eroding of privacy would end up.
It won't be just foreigners who have to give up all their social media information.
This IS how democracy erodes.
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