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> “These electronic media searches have produced information used to combat terrorism, violations of export controls, and convictions for child pornography, intellectual property rights violations and visa fraud,”

One thing people don't realise is that it's very difficult to be completely sure that all the data cached in your device is completely legal in every country. The best is to travel with wiped out devices and load them on the other side.

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Business idea : service that backs up your whole phone, like an image of the disk, then you wipe the phone and "install" the image from the services cloud. It could maybe be doable on androids, or only rootes phones.

That should be mostly what you're getting both with iPhones and Android devices and their builtin backup/restore functions.

What's wrong with iCloud?

All your data is "safe" in a USA-based data center?

> The best is to travel with wiped out devices and load them on the other side.

Or just don't cross (American) borders with devices.

No. Canadian too, Canada has frankly draconian laws when it comes to free expression and possession of pornographic fiction.

Or just dont cross (American) borders

The easiest modern machines to wipe and restore are probably Chromebooks.

I often recommend Chromebooks for corporate travel, especially for companies using Google Apps in the first place. It also helps protect against laptop theft. Plus, they're typically light and fairly inexpensive.

Of course, this assumes that you trust Google with your data.

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