White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media and phone contacts

  • Well, it happened under Obama's leadership https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/26/us-customs-soc.... Previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984609.

  • Let's say they implement this. What are some ways around it? You could uninstall Facebook and say you don't have an account. You could sign out of your Google account (Android). I wonder if there is a way to programmatically back up your contacts, remove everything, the reimport them.

    I happen to be a US cit, but if I wasn't, I would just factory reset my phone before entry. Periodic factory resets seem to be a good idea anyway.

  • Is there an official blacklist of disapproved websites? If so, isn't that a form of censorship?