So I was reading recently about the iPhone's storage of location information, and syncing to my PC, and it occurred to me that amongst the many rights the US government reserves for itself upon entry to the country, one of those is the right to download every bit of information on your phone (in this link, see the pdf at the bottom of the page).

Now, the US Dept of Homeland Security does say that it will delete information after downloading it if it deems that the information is not required; however I suspect that that is very difficult to prove and likely to get "missed" by "rogue elements" in the customs bureau.


So, what do we think about this? Which is worse, that Apple has programmed the iPhone to store that info without telling anybody about it, although there's no evidence that they actually do anything with it, or that the US government feels that it has the right to demand literally anything from anybody wishing to visit the country, including personal data on your phone?


Thoughts?