No. of Recommendations: 7
Namely, that literally no one bothers to carry their own personal cell phone with zero personal data on it - ever.
If I was a bad guy and had something on my phone I didn’t want border agents to see, I would wipe it.
And, not to be too cute, I would wipe it while at the other airport, before I entered American jurisdiction.
And say, come to think of it, how do you prove it was wiped while the agent was holding it? Maybe I wiped it a few hours ago, and it’s been in “airplane mode” ever since. If the government is going to make the assertion that it happened on American soil, don’t they have to prove that?
