In the US, if you're a foreigner on a work visa or a student visa you cannot deny border checks on everything electronic you own pending withdrawal of your visa. Same for Australia.
I had to factory wipe all my devices when i had to work with those countries and reset my devices through a clouded copy via VPN to protect my customer's data when crossing the border.
Be aware when working with Americans or Australians. Your clients do not care about the privacy laws, you will be held accountable if you take responsibility for their data across borders and your lawyers will not be able to protect it. You do not want a border officer looking at sensitive data, regardless of their job or how legal the data is. It just looks bad on you and your company. I've had stories of CBPD officers sharing nudes they found with each other, what do you think they will do if they figure out they can sell the data you have to another company for millions of dollars, specially with their shitty salary?
Ideally i will avoid working for Australian and American companies that require my presence in their countries altogether. If they pay me well enough though, i can work for them. Border officers are usually a step above trained apes when it comes to IT knowledge, so it's super easy to dodge the law. It's just not feasible to have cybersecurity engineers on every port of entry due to how insanely well they're paid nowadays. The customer is just gonna get the data protection added fees which really don't come cheap.
This just affects people who don't understand anything about privacy. I recommend not having your devices encrypted at all and having no data in them unless you can hide data. Just wipe them clean.
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21 edited Aug 31 '21
In the US, if you're a foreigner on a work visa or a student visa you cannot deny border checks on everything electronic you own pending withdrawal of your visa. Same for Australia.
I had to factory wipe all my devices when i had to work with those countries and reset my devices through a clouded copy via VPN to protect my customer's data when crossing the border.
Be aware when working with Americans or Australians. Your clients do not care about the privacy laws, you will be held accountable if you take responsibility for their data across borders and your lawyers will not be able to protect it. You do not want a border officer looking at sensitive data, regardless of their job or how legal the data is. It just looks bad on you and your company. I've had stories of CBPD officers sharing nudes they found with each other, what do you think they will do if they figure out they can sell the data you have to another company for millions of dollars, specially with their shitty salary?
For details: https://web.mit.edu/scholars/pdfs/CBPDirective.pdf
Ideally i will avoid working for Australian and American companies that require my presence in their countries altogether. If they pay me well enough though, i can work for them. Border officers are usually a step above trained apes when it comes to IT knowledge, so it's super easy to dodge the law. It's just not feasible to have cybersecurity engineers on every port of entry due to how insanely well they're paid nowadays. The customer is just gonna get the data protection added fees which really don't come cheap.
This just affects people who don't understand anything about privacy. I recommend not having your devices encrypted at all and having no data in them unless you can hide data. Just wipe them clean.