Keeping your data safe when crossing bordersCan you keep your personal data and accounts safe when every country starts to want it?
When I flew back to Canada from San Francisco last October, the well-suited traveler next to me disabled Touch ID on his iPhone before crossing the border, then enabled it again once he'd cleared security and customs. The sight of him re-registering fingerprints after exiting the terminal stuck with me. This was Canada, after all, not the Galactic Empire! Then I realized it wasn't the country that mattered to him, it was the security.
Jonathan Zdziarski, writing for his blog:
Once policies that require surrendering passwords (I'll call them password policies from now on) are adopted, the obvious intelligence benefit will no doubt inspire other countries to establish reciprocity in order to leverage receiving better intelligence about their own citizens traveling abroad. It's likely that the US will inspire many countries, including many oppressive nations, to institute password policies at t...
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Keeping your data safe when crossing borders
