How to keep your data safe when you travel

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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If you’re heading on vacation this summer, you’re going to want to listen to this. The Verge’s Gaby del Valle joins the show to explain how worried you need to be about your digital data when you cross borders, and what you can do to protect yourself. Even if you don’t think you have anything to hide, a little precaution goes a long way. After that, Puck’s Matt Belloni joins the show to explain why Apple, Amazon, Google, and other tech companies continue to pour money into the streaming business, when it seems so far removed from what those companies do well. (Spoiler alert: it’s fun to be friends with Ben Stiller.) Finally, we answer a hotline question about the Google Pixel’s ascent to “best Android phone for people who just want a phone.” Oh, also: thanks to everyone who voted for us in the Webby Awards! We’ll know soon whether we won, but however it shakes out, we’re so grateful to everyone who voted for us. Further reading: Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now? DHS’s airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained Trump says he wants to deport US citizens to El Salvador Matt Belloni at Puck The Town podcast From Puck: How Long Can the Apple TV+ Experiment Sputter On? - Puck Google Pixel 9A review: a midrange phone done right Google Pixel 9 review: the phone that Android needs Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of having really famous friends.
0:07.8	I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am in my backyard, on my patio, putting together this
0:13.4	little Tykes house that we got for my toddler. It was a gift from my parents. My two-year-old,
0:19.4	I think, is very much going to like it. But also, if I'm
0:21.5	being honest, it was very fun and cathartic to put this thing together in the way that it's fun
0:25.5	to, like, do IKEA furniture. It's a little bit of work. It's just enough to make you feel like
0:29.6	you've really accomplished something. And I'm like, yeah, I built a house today. Is it made of plastic and will it blow away next time there's wind? Yes, but that's not important. I built a house today.
0:39.7	Anyway, this house is not what we are here to talk about today. Today on the show, we're going to do two things.
0:45.0	First, I'm going to talk to Gabby Del Valle about a thing we've actually heard from you a lot about recently,
0:50.2	which is how to travel with your phone, especially across borders right now. It's
0:55.1	very complicated in the United States politically, and so Gabby and I are going to try to
0:58.6	give you some tips on what to do to secure your data before you travel. Then I'm going to talk
1:03.8	to Matt Bellany from Puck about what he's seeing in the big tech streaming wars and why
1:09.9	companies like Apple and Amazon and Google
1:11.9	want in on this in the first place.
1:14.6	We also have a really fun hotline question about Google.
1:17.2	Lots to get to you today.
1:18.3	But first, I have to figure out how to get out of this house.
1:21.2	I barely crammed myself in here,
1:22.5	and it's going to be very ugly getting out.
1:25.1	So this is the Vergecast.
1:26.6	We'll be right back.
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