Seriously, UK law requires you to give up your passwords upon police request - they don't need a court order.
So unless that backup of your phone (and your laptop) is an offline backup, you're letting the police have their way with your kit, or you're spending up to two years in prison.
If that sounds like I'm saying "Treat travel to the UK as you would travel to China" - yeah, I kinda am.
If you're unlucky it could go every bit as badly for you as a trip to CN. Do you feel lucky?
In a worse case scenario I have an external hard drive backup which is very handy that I regularly make copies of my life's work ( Mostly code and should probably save my 3D models and art ).
If I ever end up having to fuck off somewhere I can at least cut my losses and still have all my work on there safely. Hopefully it will never come to that though and maybe the masses will finally have had enough of the UK governments' bullshit regarding state harassment but you never know. I'd consider even learning Russian but I wonder if my fucking government would use that as an excuse to maliciously label me a Russian agent in this day and age because yes they are that bad. I just want to develop games, but I do not have a good feeling about the next couple of years.
Your biggest defence is probably that the security state simply isn't interested in you.
As we've seen all too well with certain events within the last three years, the UK's long tradition of an unwritten constitution means that it's all too easy to shit all over that unwritten constitution if enough civil servants think they can make it stick and bully the relevant spineless politicians.
Just throw away your passport and say your name is Mbumbu Mohammed. You'll get preferential treatment, they'll comp your hotel and you won't even have to abide by their laws if you feel like having some fun raping and stabbing the natives.
That might not help.
Seriously, UK law requires you to give up your passwords upon police request - they don't need a court order.
So unless that backup of your phone (and your laptop) is an offline backup, you're letting the police have their way with your kit, or you're spending up to two years in prison.
If that sounds like I'm saying "Treat travel to the UK as you would travel to China" - yeah, I kinda am.
If you're unlucky it could go every bit as badly for you as a trip to CN. Do you feel lucky?
In a worse case scenario I have an external hard drive backup which is very handy that I regularly make copies of my life's work ( Mostly code and should probably save my 3D models and art ).
If I ever end up having to fuck off somewhere I can at least cut my losses and still have all my work on there safely. Hopefully it will never come to that though and maybe the masses will finally have had enough of the UK governments' bullshit regarding state harassment but you never know. I'd consider even learning Russian but I wonder if my fucking government would use that as an excuse to maliciously label me a Russian agent in this day and age because yes they are that bad. I just want to develop games, but I do not have a good feeling about the next couple of years.
Your biggest defence is probably that the security state simply isn't interested in you.
As we've seen all too well with certain events within the last three years, the UK's long tradition of an unwritten constitution means that it's all too easy to shit all over that unwritten constitution if enough civil servants think they can make it stick and bully the relevant spineless politicians.
And all of the politicians are spineless.
Best UK travel tip: Arrive with 15 divisions and a carrier battle group.
Just throw away your passport and say your name is Mbumbu Mohammed. You'll get preferential treatment, they'll comp your hotel and you won't even have to abide by their laws if you feel like having some fun raping and stabbing the natives.
Maybe just stop traveling to shit country's controlled by INGSOC-level commie regimes?
Just a thought...
At this point you might as well travel with completely new, unused devices.