https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/us-plans-to-ask-visitors-to-share-5-years-of-social-media-history-to-enterVisitors who are eligible to enter the United States without a visa may soon be required to provide the Department of Homeland Security with significantly more personal information, including details about their social media activity, email accounts and family background.According to a notice published on Wednesday in the Federal Register, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is proposing to collect up to five years of social media data from travelers from certain visa-waiver countries.The proposed requirement would apply to travellers using the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) under the Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens of 42 countries – including the United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar, Greece, Malta, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Israel and South Korea – to travel to the US for tourism or business for up to 90 days.Currently, the ESTA automatically screens applicants and grants travel approval without requiring an in-person interview at a US embassy or consulate, unlike standard visa applications.At present, ESTA applicants are required to provide a more limited set of information, such as their parents’ names, current email address, and details of any past criminal record.A question asking travellers to disclose their social media information was first added to the ESTA application in 2016, though it has remained optional.
New rules also target metadata, email historyThe new notice also states that the CBP plans to request additional personal information from visitors, including telephone numbers used over the past five years and email addresses used over the last 10 years.Authorities also said they plan to add what they describe as “high-value data fields” to the ESTA application “when feasible”. These would include metadata from electronically submitted photographs, extensive personal details about applicants’ family members, such as their places of birth and telephone numbers used over the past five years, as well as biometric information, including fingerprints, DNA and iris data.The announcement did not say what the administration was looking for in the social media accounts of visitors or why it was asking for more information.But the CBP said it was complying with an executive order that US President Donald Trump signed in January that called for more screening of people coming to the US to prevent the entry of possible national security threats.Travellers from countries that are not part of the Visa Waiver Program system are already required to submit their social media information, a policy that dates back to the first Trump administration. The policy remained during US President Joe Biden’s administration.The public has 60 days to submit comments on the proposed changes before they are finalized, the notice in the Federal Register states.
>>1464302Great, don't come here. It's not safe.
>>1464302And this is the proof confirming they banned tht one guy from entering because of his Vance memes.
>>1464302These are the best ashes I have ever seen!
>>1464321I saw the quote and thought of modern Democrats.
>>1464322>Digital ID bad>Collecting biometric and social media data from tourists for Palantir's database good>This is all democrats faultkek
>>1464325Don't forget it's only Republican controlled states that are forcing through those Age verification laws.
>>1464302The Land of the Free
>>1464325>>1464329And the slimy piles of fecal matter are here to polarize things and make this a left-right issue when it's a world uniparty initiative.The grass wouldn't be greener on the other side. And faggots who are campaigning on it being greener instead of joining forces with all concerned parties are traitors complicit with the initiative and should be executed.
>>1464335lmao surely getting rid of all government will fix all the problems.
>>1464335It's only a left-right issue if dipshit contrarian Republicans let it be instead of joining with the left to be against this shit.>when it's a world uniparty initiativeNah.
>>1464335Enlightened centrists should get the rope first
The worst part about this is the bad precedent it sets. If the US, home of the First Amendment, can do this, why shouldn't England or France or even tourist countries with questionable human rights records like Thailand or Egypt?
>>1464352Yeah and it will be for the tourists but what's the guarantee they will stop at that? And how will this work? if a tourist posted their opinion on something online that US doesn't agree with, they can't enter the country? Free speech anyone?
>>1464353It isn't just online postings they also want email history going back 5 years. It seems like they're using this as an excuse to give Palantir data for their experimental Big Brother AI. But it's hard to imagine how they will target Americans with the same requirements. Maybe for administrative government job applications or something. >Oh you want to work at a snack bar in a national park?>We're going to need your email history first
>>1464302It's not long till next year, visitors from the rest of the world. Don't forget: the midterms.Next year sees Trump's power being reduced until it's nothing. Think about the future, ICE in Miami, now a Democrat mayor elected there is the shape of things to come. Other states, too.Come 14th July 2028, people from around the world will be able to boo at Trump with impunity when he opens the Los Angeles Olympics. But that's the only thing he'll have actual power to do by then.Will you have any power left, ICE in all states, by then? If you haven't all melted away. Think about the future: when your leader & authority-giver becomes lame duck a l'orange next year.
>>1464356>Next year sees Trump's power being reduced until it's nothing.Hopefully not. Democrats are worthless. So are Republicans, but Democrats are a special kind of destructive worthless.
>>1464359>Hopefully not>NYC>New Jersey>Virginia>California>now MiamiCertainly. Republicans will soon be worthless: they already are in the above. Republicans are a special kind of destructive worthless. Just look at their so-called 'president' soon to become lame duck a l'orange. Impotent. Worthless. Certainly the cultists by this time next year.
>>1464359>Trying mum both sides after republicans are on the verge of destroying America
>>1464353Given how things are working right now, they'll probably let them enter, then arrest them for three weeks followed by deportation to help pad ICE's ridiculous daily quota.
>>1464302Imagine the MAGA outrage if Obama or Biden did something like this.
>>1464432They would still be seething about it today, while still totally ignoring that Trump is doing it.
>>1464432>>1464438Honestly my favorite example of this is how right wingers suck off Musk.He's literally everything the accuse the deep state to be>foreigner who owns fucktons of foreign money>owns one of the biggest social media platforms on the net and openly uses it to sway public opinion>uses money to influence election results>literally bribed himself into a position of state power that one time
>>1464432Trump sits at the right hand of an omnipotent God - where do those losers sit?
>>1464448Did you give Trump $15 like he asked so he can get into heaven?
>>1464450>Donald's only takeaway from European history is selling indulgences is a good idea
>>1464448It's not my business to tell an omnipotent God how to run things, but I'd personally pick someone who doesn't hang out with pedophiles. Then again, given the church's record, maybe God sees that as a selling point.
>>1464448Which God would that be? Certainly not the Christian one that's for sure
I mean seriously, they are proposing that they even want people's dna?
>>1464440Hypocrisy and projection from MAGA? Unheard of.
>>1464354They already are making new gov employees write statements about how much they like Donald’s executive orders and DOGE
>>1464440There's a good chance he hacked the results of the election so trump would win and the republicans kept the senate too.
>>1464448>God made the underage Mary pregnant>Trump fucked underage girlsGee, I wonder why so many churches are closing in America?
>>1464483Is there even a shred of evidence for this?
>>1464615Must saying he was the sole reason trump won and republicans kept the senate, and polling data being off, again, only when trump is on the ballot.Amazing how there's never an investigation into that.
>>1464302Who would want to enter muttland anyway where you get assaulted simply for saying nigger lmao
>>1464320You talking about the Norwegian kid with Vance memes on his phone? He was refused entry for fantasizing about killing Vance in the comments of his YouTube videos not because of the memes he showed the tabloids.
>>1464635May I see the comments?
>>1464636Probably.
>>1464302They can do the same thing to citizens. What makes you special?
>>1464647The fact that I haven't had social media for five years because all of that is the devil. This could fuck me up if I ever go out on holiday and god forbid other countries start doing it or America does do it for returning citizens. I'll be considered suspicious just for not opting into this retarded system.
>>1464635>He was refused entry for fantasizing about killing Vance in the comments of his YouTube videos MayISeeIt?.jpgRegardless, trump's people planted drugs on him to claim that was the reason he was denied entry, so you can't even stick to the right cover story.
>>1464664NTA, but you can google it. The dude was literally a crackhead and that's why they turned him away.
>>1464710The only thing he did wrong was having popular vance memes on his phone. Everything else they claimed was cope.
>>1464711Sure, sure. And I don't even care if what you say is true, since leftists are literal terrorists away.Do you think we've forgotten all the terrorism?
>>1464302What's going to happen when Democrats win and conservatives can't enter the country because they said something that wasn't progressive enough
>>1464910>what when we uno reverse!The majority of economic migrants are extremely traditional either as catholic south americans or islamic africans and middle easterners or women hating indians.
