How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact

Step 1: don’t
- It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:
  Australia
  Belgium
  Canada
  Denmark
  Finland
  France
  Germany
  Ireland
  Mexico
  Netherlands
  New Zealand
  Norway
  Portugal
  United Kingdom
  
  Sure are a lot of 5eyes countries in that list. I'm pretty sure we don't have closer allies than that. Well aside from Russia now
- I wish it were so easy. I'll be going there later this year because family. Ugh
  
  Unless you're a blonde head blue eyed Caucasian with no tattoos, I wouldn't personally risk it. ICE used to be at least microscopically reasonable, they wouldn't detain people who demonstradedly weren't illegals. Not now though.
  You have to wonder what the hell their end game is.
  
  I'd make them come to me unless it was someone on their deathbed. A literal life or death scenario.
  
  You can always get a new family if you're not in prison

Don't visit unless it is a life or death situation. I wouldn't want to go into country that wants to finger print me, hand over social media, and copy my devices.
- The fingerprinting thing has been going on for decades. I remember having to get fingerprinted to enter in 2015

Wired is lost. If you dont offer up credible social media accounts or if you have a wiped phone, they probably wont let you in. These people still believe that the rules apply but they simply dont. There are no guarantees.
- You can tell that to
  Ryan Lackey has traveled to countries like Russia or China[;] he has taken certain precautions: Instead of his usual gear, the Seattle-based security researcher and chief security officer of a cryptocurrency insurance firm brings a locked-down Chromebook and an iPhone that's set up to sync with a separate, nonsensitive Apple account. He wipes both before every trip and loads only the minimum data he'll need. Lackey has gone so far as to keep separate travel sets for each country, so that he can forensically analyze the devices when he gets home to check for signs of each country's tampering.
  
  Now, Lackey says, the countries that warrant that paranoid approach to travel might include not just Russia and China but also the United States
  Thats what he wrote right after your quote, implying that he hasnt tested it. Also this level of paranoia was always justified for US travel and he surely knows that. The thing is that the US is now probably worse than Russia or China when it comes to the chance for random people to be arrested. For political activists its probably equally likely but the survival chance in the US is still higher.
  
  A fucking Chromebook lmao
  
  Until he gets detained by trumps border people.
- Last time I travelled to the US, I brought my old phone. It had plenty of text messages, a few photos of family and nature, and nothing else. They didn't check it, but I guessed it would pass the "not a burner" vibe. Now I'm wondering, though, how people would react to me having no social media presence (other than Reddit at that time, which I accessed via browser). Not that I'm planning to travel to the US ever again, but I wonder whether there's a market for perfectly inoffensive fake social media accounts.
- Am i fucked if i haven't posted on facebook since like 2014?
  
  Make a fake account and just post random things so the government doesn't think your lame when they check your social media.

I'll actively try to avoid that. There's been a time in which I thought it could have been interesting to visit that country, but the time has passed.
- It's so sad. We have a beautiful country and most people are very nice.
  
  Got to be really deranged to vote for a candidate that ran on a platform of revenge and hate, and there's at the minimum 70 million of those types of Americans which outnumbers many individual countries. Americans suck and don't seem nice. Too many bad apples.
  
  I guess so, but recent news aren't exactly inspiring. I'm really sorry for you (and I say that from an EU country with shitty politicians as well).

I've never travel outside of Mexico before, but let's say, I do want to travel to a country that do not ask you for a visa, BUT, to get to that country my plane do need to make a stopover in the US. Do I do need visa just for that stopover in the US?
- Not if you transfer directly to another plane, you only need a Visa if you go through passport control.
  
  Most airports do it like this, but I've been to places hat need a transit visa just to get to your next flight. Odds are you are correct for a US connection.

ship it to your hotel and travel with a burner til you reach your destination.