Subj : us border searches data
To   : Mike Powell
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Aug 24 2025 13:53:00

Hello Mike!

** On Sunday 24.08.25 - 10:11, you wrote to me:

 MP> That has made me not want to travel into Canada during
 MP> "current times," even though I am sure it was our
 MP> government that started that mess.  ;( I could get a
 MP> burner phone (since my carrier isn't guaranteed to work in
 MP> Canada that'd make sense anyway), but I also usually carry
 MP> a laptop with me so I can offload any digital photos I
 MP> take.  I take a lot and the parts of Canada I have been in
 MP> are beautiful so I guess I would need lots of extra cards
 MP> to feed into the cameras.

Yes.. apparently anyone returning to the States [even a US  
citizen] is subject to CBP inspections.

Offloading phone images to the laptop won't help - your CBP  
would be inspecting laptops too.

You could enter Canada without issue, but coming back you would  
need to offload your images to the cloud or something [like,  
mail them back to yourself?] ... unless, standalone SD/media  
cards are exempt from searches at your boarder? / which I  
doubt.


 MP> Unfortunately, one of them takes a card type that is now obsolete!  :O

I suppose if your pics are innoccuous things, then you have  
nothing to be concerned about. However, the searches through  
media devices does seem like overreach.

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