sure, but that’s on them. You’re not required to give them your passcode. They can compel biometrics which is why you should power off your phone.

also, the rate at which this happens is minuscule. They don’t care about your dog photos. They probably suspect you of a crime already.

sure, they can take your phone and use commercial software on it. But they can’t compel you to give them a passcode. Maybe costs you 24 hours in a holding tank. That’s a price I would be willing to pay on principle.

How would this work for pay purposes? Let's say you are on a premium trip, would you continue to be paid until released?

Make sure you disable facial recognition if you want it to be their problem. US customs can by the way force non citizens including green Card holders to unlock their phones as a condition of entry. China’s policy simply mirrors ours.

Facial recognition doesn't work after a shutdown or reboot. That's why you shutdown/reboot/lockdown first.

They already have software that can copy your entire phone. Those same software companies advertise that they have the ability to get past lock screens. It really isn't too hard to connect those dots. They don't need a passcode. There have also been numerous court cases of the CBP trying to claim that they have the right to search data on the cloud that a phone connected to at any point in history. Why would they argue that point if they didn't have the ability to do it? That means one day you might come back from vacation and CBP sees a meme you liked 20 years ago and decides you are a problem. A little A.I. analysis of your bank records shows some suspicious activity and now you get audited.

"Guility people are the only ones who should be worried" is some bootlicking logic right there.

Why did they care about me? I was randomly selected for additional screening without ever given a reason. What might me minuscule now could be the new norm in the future. Why do you think airports are using facial screening software? It is no faster than scanning a boarding pass, but now it gives a nice database so a cop can quickly scan your face when you happen to be walking past a protest event during your overnight. Now your social credit score takes a hit.

All of this yes! "I see here your phone has been in the vicinity of several anarchist protests. We now consider you to be antifa and an enemy of the state. As a suspected terrorist, you will be locked away without about constitutional rights."

When you eventually are able to clear your name with the help of a very expensive lawyer, your retirement will be gone and you will have to fight to get your job back. The government doesn't need to PROVE you did anything wrong or send you to jail to completely ruin your life. Doing a perp walk as "Delta Captain Smith arrested on suspicion of terrorism" is enough to ruin your life

If you read the fine print from those companies, there are things they admit that they can't do, like break into GrapheneOS. Like crack an encrypted data dump from your phone. Like break into encrypted cloud storage from a provider like Proton.

That’s true for now. The fact that they can get around a lock screen shows what their intentions and capabilities are. They are mirroring phones now so that one day in the future they can unlock all the data. We only found out the true capabilities of the NSA after Snowden spoke out. That showed the powers of the federal government were much greater than what we thought at the time.

And almost no one uses GrapheneOS or Proton. I use Proton, but I also know my phone has enough data on it for a lifetimes worth of worthless investigations if I **** off the wrong border agent. Sure, my email might be hard for them to read right now, but they will see that last month I had breakfast during a layover at a restaurant full of “No Kings” protesters.

Your accusation of me being a bootlicker is so far off base I wonder if you actually read what I wrote.