{"id":26863,"date":"2025-04-30T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26863"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:24:34","slug":"how-to-protect-your-phone-while-traveling-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26863","title":{"rendered":"How to Protect Your Phone While Traveling Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here are some best practices for safeguarding sensitive personal data.<\/p>\n

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When I travel to Asia this summer, I plan to leave my iPhone at home. Instead, I\u2019ll pack a different phone lacking my staple apps, like Instagram, Slack and Signal. It won\u2019t even be logged in to my work email.<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not planning a digital detox. I\u2019m choosing to travel with what\u2019s known as a burner phone because my personal device contains sensitive data that I don\u2019t want others, particularly U.S. border protection officers, to search.<\/p>\n

For over a decade, the federal government has had the authority to conduct border searches of travelers\u2019 personal electronics, including phones, laptops and tablets. In recent years, such inspections have steadily increased, though they happen to only a small portion of people entering the United States.<\/p>\n

Last year, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency reported<\/a> that it had conducted roughly 43,000 electronics searches, up from about 38,000 in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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To be clear, I may be particularly paranoid as a journalist who is constantly working to protect confidential sources from being outed, so a burner phone is an extreme measure that most people won\u2019t find practical or even necessary.<\/p>\n

But in recent incidents, travelers have been denied entry into the United States in part because of phone data, such as photos of guns and social media posts about protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here are some best practices for safeguarding sensitive personal data.When I travel to Asia this summer, I plan to leave my iPhone at home. Instead, I\u2019ll pack a different phone lacking my staple apps, like Instagram, Slack and Signal. It won\u2019t even be logged in to my work email.No, I\u2019m not planning a digital detox. I\u2019m choosing to travel with what\u2019s known as a burner phone because my personal device contains sensitive data that I don\u2019t want others, particularly U.S. border protection officers, to search.For over a decade, the federal government has had the authority to conduct border searches of travelers\u2019 personal electronics, including phones, laptops and tablets. In recent years, such inspections have steadily increased, though they happen to only a small portion of people entering the United States.Last year, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency reported that it had conducted roughly 43,000 electronics searches, up from about 38,000 in 2023.To be clear, I may be particularly paranoid as a journalist who is constantly working to protect confidential sources from being outed, so a burner phone is an extreme measure that most people won\u2019t find practical or even necessary.But in recent incidents, travelers have been denied entry into the United States in part because of phone data, such as photos of guns and social media posts about protests.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26865,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26866,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26863\/revisions\/26866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}