#028 - Burner Phones and Wiped Feeds: How Border Surveillance Forces Us to Erase Ourselves

In this episode of We Are Still Human, Phillip Kemp investigates how tourists entering the United States are using burner phones and wiping social media accounts to avoid border surveillance under the Trump administration. He explains how AI screening, metadata checks, and biometric systems have expanded since 9/11, and why travelers now fear their digital history more than airport security lines. Drawing on examples from McCarthyism and COINTELPRO, Kemp shows how governments train people to self-erase — and warns what happens when memory itself becomes a passport.