[pimeys]

The saddest thing is this will be the sole reason to not travel to US. Sad, because I have family there now and I do love the people and the culture.

[dTal]

The way to travel to the US will be to never physically bring personal data with you. They can't search what's not there.

[fredsted]

You can't win here. It will be suspicious to bring no devices, or devices that look like they've just been restored.

[clouddrover]

> It will be suspicious to bring no devices

Just like the Chinese government's Integrated Joint Operations Platform surveillance software. "Not using a smartphone" is one of the 36 data points which mark you out as having "suspicious behaviour":

https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/chin...

[anticensor]

Not if you are poor enough.

[jkaplowitz]

That used to be true. Poor people can often afford a smartphone now, even in really poor countries like Ethiopia, not just the US. It may be a crappy old or limited model, but it doesn't have to be a feature phone.

[pimeys]

My phone is an important part of my diabetes control. Travelling without or giving it away is not an option.

I'll survive without it, but will lose the extra control of glucose in an already stressful situation.

[neuronic]

The "people and the culture" are what brought this forth.

[auiya]

I never understood this differentiation either. "I like the people but not the leaders". Who do you think put those leaders there in the first place?

[michelb]

Well, not most of the people, even though it advertises as a form of democracy.