FWIW, i think all of this has been true, well before Trump took office, and
made these changes to the current travel policies...
/S
On Apr 3, 2017, at 8:26 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk(_at_)gsp(_dot_)org> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:59:49AM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
I don't know when I will be refused entry for not handing out
passwords or pins.
This is worth noting on an equal basis with the question of
whether travelers will be refused entry or only permitted entry
after considerable delays, interrogation, and abuse. There is
at this moment no articulated, consistent, and uniform policy
in place specifying:
- who will be asked for passwords
- why they'll be asked
- who will do the asking
- under what circumstances they'll be asked
- what the ramifications of refusal are
- what the ramifications of not remembering them are
- what the ramifications of agreement are
- what use will be made of them
- what use will be made of any data they provide access to
- if they'll be retained
- if the data they provide access to will be retained
- if they'll be shared with other US agencies
- if they'll be shared with other non-US agencies
- if computing devices will be confiscated
- if computing devices will be searched
- if computing devices will be returned
- if the contents of computing devices will be copied
- who will have access to that data
- what use will be made of that data
- if that data will be retained
- if that data will be shared with US agencies
- if that data will be shared with non-US agencies
- what auditing controls (if any) exist to prevent mis-use
- when any retained passwords/data will be destroyed (if ever)
- etc.
Moreover, the ad hoc policies that are in place are used very
inconsistently -- at the personal whims of those enforcing them --
and are subject to change not only without advance notice,
but without any notice of any kind.
Because of this, asking anyone to come to the US at this time is
equivalent to asking them to incur unknown but possibly very large
privacy and security risks, as well the financial risk of losing
any/all computing devices they bring with them.
---rsk