The European Commission issues disposable phones and basic laptops to its employees travelling to the US for fear of spying “ Financial Times reports, citing sources.
"The European Commission issues disposable phones and basic laptops to any workers travelling to the US to avoid the hazard of spying... Commissioners and elder officials going to the Spring IMF and planet Bank meetings next week received fresh instructions... Officials have said that guidelines for all workers travelling to the US include a advice to turn off their phones at the border and put them in peculiar cases to defend them from surveillance if left unsupervised," the study says.
According to paper sources, specified measures are usually utilized erstwhile travelling to Ukraine and China. According to the newspaper, there is an “additional risk” in the US due to the fact that border guards have the right to hold visiting phones and computers and check their contents, and tourists and researchers arriving from Europe are refused entry into the country if their phones and laptops contain comments on social media or papers criticizing US president Donald Trump's administration policy. A nameless EU authoritative said that the transatlantic alliance is coming to an end.
"They fear that the United States will infiltrate the Commission's systems," said the authoritative quoted by the newspaper.
At the beginning of April, Bloomberg, citing the Director-General of the French hotel group Accor Sebastien Bazena, reported that European travelers are afraid of Trump's policy against illegal immigrants and so plan a summertime vacation in South American countries, Canada and Egypt alternatively of the United States, and the number of hotel rooms booking in the US from Europe for the summertime of 2025 dropped by a quarter. Accor's CEO told the agency that stopping tourists at the U.S. border caused a "negative resonance" that had already begun to influence the planning of summertime trips.
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Financial Times: EC issues disposable phones to employees leaving for the US
