- No thank you, already trying to make sure CBP doesn’t access my phone, let alone when trying to show them who I am
- ”supported TSA checkpoints for domestic travel” — uh, what? Is there a plan for checkpoints between states that I haven’t heard about?
The point of not handing over your phone is also true. There is no world in witch I am voluntarily giving anyone my unlocked phone.
To your second question, have you never flown in an airplane in the US since 9/11? You go through TSA at every airport, regardless of your destination. You have to show an ID at TSA. You don’t have to show a passport to fly domestically obviously, but you can. Case in point, I have a passport but I don’t have a license or other state issued ID. I will now be able to fly domestically without having my physical passport on me.
Checkpoints between states? Just think critically about this for a second.
It’s not even really a privacy perspective or a technology thing. I mean that matters but that’s a deeper issue.
I simply don’t like the idea of an critical travel document not being physical. I like that right now I can lose my phone and I can still easily cross back into my home country. Mabey I’m just old (I’m in my 20’s).
A phone is also a physical object. Yes, you could lose it, but you could also lose your paper passport.
The bigger issue in terms of reliability is having your documentation on a device with a battery that can run out.
What if you have your phone and lose your physical passport.
Either way you’re screwed.
Slowly inching towards a world where not having a smartphone won’t be an option
