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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday April 01 2018, @07:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the quite-an-assumption dept.

Previously the State Department had required only visitors to the US who where coming from specific regions to turn over more social control media information. Now Engadget and CNN tell of the following proposed changes which are now posted in the Federal Register and entering their 60 period for public comment.

From Engadget:

In documents that the department will file to the Federal Register tomorrow [ed: 2018-03-30], it proposes that nearly every individual applying for a US visa be required to hand over any social media handles used on certain platforms in the past five years as well as submit any telephone numbers and email addresses used during that same time period.

The State Department will accept public comments until near the end of May.

Sources:
Engadget: US visa applications may soon require five years of social media info
CNN: US to require would-be immigrants to turn over social media handles

[ed: no actual DS-160 or DS-156 forms seem to be available for download or review.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/forms/ds-160-online-nonimmigrant-visa-application.html ]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @01:16AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @01:16AM (#661296)

    I don't remember my passwords and I don't bring them when I travel
    - I have them written down at home only

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 02 2018, @03:31AM (3 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Monday April 02 2018, @03:31AM (#661322) Journal

    There's no indication they are asking for your passwords.

    They just want to be able to trawl through mountains of captured email and social media posts to find out what you said and who you said it to. They've been gathering that shit for decades.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @05:28AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @05:28AM (#661339)

      Correction: They already have been trawling, and just want to confirm the match.

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @03:35PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @03:35PM (#661520)

        Yes, they have. They went through a woman's emails on arrival in Hawaii, found out that she was meeting her fiance and that she had quit her job so roughly deported her on suspicion of trying to enter the country to stay illegally.
        She was planning on marrying her fiance.
        Think about this for a moment.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @09:49PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @09:49PM (#661683)

          Yeah, I like to make up stories too.

  • (Score: 2) by boltronics on Monday April 02 2018, @04:01AM (2 children)

    by boltronics (580) on Monday April 02 2018, @04:01AM (#661330) Homepage Journal

    They're asking for handles, not passwords (yet).

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @08:52AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @08:52AM (#661375)

      Except aren't they asking for passwords also from people coming from certain countries?

      • (Score: 2) by boltronics on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:51AM

        by boltronics (580) on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:51AM (#661802) Homepage Journal

        I question if they even need passwords, since it seems there's a focus on specific websites, which are probably all US-based.

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