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Dramatic_Hammer
Tinfoil hat time, conceivably. But, hear me out before shouting CHEMTRAILS!
I have deliberately avoided travelling to the US since Trump, I can't delay any longer and will be there for a couple of weeks next month.
I'm a middle aged, middle class white guy - but I have a last name that has prompted a US customs and border agent to ask me whether "you some kind of Arab lover, boy?"
Which was interesting.
Anyway - I use Facebook, I use Twitter, I accept that they're sharing data with the NSA, that doesn't bother me.
What bothers me is that the US Government (and pretty much all other governments) don't like end-to-end encryption, and tend to compromise end-points so they don't have to break the crypto.
i.e. they insist on me unlocking my iPhone then they bugger off with it "for security", my suspicion is that it'd going to come back with spyware on it. I also suspect that I won't be able to clear this with a wipe and reinstall, or ever actually find it. Out of sight out of mind?
Potentially - however my phone is a point on our network, GDPR states that if our network is compromised (in certain ways, for sure) then that's a fine of either 20M or 4% of revenue, whichever is higher. That'd be a hell of a way to be remembered.
So - leave phone in luggage? Is that literally the best thing we can come up with?