Digital Hygiene and personal devices

Traveling with electronics in 2025 requires new vigilance.

Mar 25, 2025

Digital hygiene, self-care in the digital realm, involves a series of practices and habits aimed at safeguarding and enhancing one's digital well-being. Much like self-care routines contribute to physical and mental health, digital hygiene focuses on maintaining the health, security, and overall well-being of our digital lives.

https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=155669

Can TSA search your phone? Know your digital rights at the airport https://blog.avast.com/can-tsa-search-your-phone

Your legal protections are even less traveling with company issued equipment. https://www.osi.af.mil/Portals/29/Traveling%20With%20Mobile%20Devices%20TriFold.pdf

May be an image of map and text that says 'Before Travel: If you can do without the device, don't take it. Don't take information you don't need, including sensitive contact information. Consider the consequences if your information were stolen by a foreign government Or competitor.'

Final link on digital security while traveling. Turning off biometrics might help, also.

"If you’re a US citizen, “you have the right to say no” to a search, “and they are not allowed to bar you from the country, but if you refuse, CBP can still take your phone, laptop, or other devices and hold onto them."

https://www.theverge.com/policy/634264/customs-border-protection-search-phone-airport-rights

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Digital Hygiene and personal devices

Traveling with electronics in 2025 requires new vigilance.

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