Subj : us border searches data
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Tue Aug 26 2025 08:46:08

AA>> "However, agents can search people's email, text and WhatsApp
>> messages, and any other content that's accessible on a device."

RM> I wonder if that may be because messages and such are considered
RM> somewhat Public where a Cloud Storage site can be totally private?

AA>Seems to me it should/could be the other way around. Perhaps
  >they consider it's overreach to insist they have the user's
  >phone sucking data if you don't want it to?  However, I suppose
  >searching the phone's own local contents is akin to searching a
  >bag of luggage that is *with* the person.

It would be pretty hard to prove someone has a cloud account as well,
or know where they keep things. I have 5 Cloud accounts at the moment,
but only one I actually set up and use myself, the others were supplied
by Microsoft or Google or eMail systems automatically when you start
as a user there.

RM> I can add this to all the reasons why I don't travel outside
RM> Canada anymore, although I only went to the USA quite often
RM> in earlier years

AA>Me too.  Not interested to travel to the USA anymore.  I've
  >been to Florida a few times as part of my pastlife work, and
  >once to Pennsylvania, and once to Boston.

Yes, I spent whole winters in Florida a couple of years, and summer
motorcycle trips for a few weeks, plus I was working with a motorcycle
racing group and often went South on weekends with them for racing.

I virtually always drove down so I had a chance to visit quite
a number of different states to see the differences.

Funny, the main hassle you got crossing the border back then was
whether you had enough money or not because they didn't want you
heading down there and stealing jobs from the Mexicans...   B)

One year I was asked about finances when I said I was going down
for several weeks, so I showed them that I had access to many
thousands of dollars should I need it, and then that almost got
me denied access for having too much money available which could
be used for doing any number of illegal things I suppose..

AA>Wouldn't mind travelling to my parent's home country in Europe,
  >but I'm not interested to go through the hassle of getting a
  >passport.

AA>We have quite a vast country to explore. No passport required.

Yes, I've never owned a passport in my life..

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