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Protecting Your Phone—and Your Privacy—at the US Border
In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts explain how to prepare for travel to and from the United States—and how to stay safe.
Lauren Goode: Yeah, there's a lot happening, and last week on the show we did an episode, sort of similar, about surveillance and protests and how to stay safe if you decide to take to the streets, exercise your First Amendment rights. Katie Drummond: One of the pieces of all of this in the last few months that has made it so difficult is that the press is reporting on these isolated incidents, like a scientist here, a journalist there, a tourist here, but there is not a codified or any sort of institutional guidance from the Trump administration about any new policies at the border, anything specific that they are now looking for or targeting. We have been obviously covering the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, quite a bit, and one of the major efforts they appear to be undertaking is an attempt to pull data from all of these different federal agencies into one readily accessible database.
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