Department of Homeland Security to Collect Social Media of Immigrants and Citizens

New rules give the DHS permission to collect "social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results" as part of people's immigration file. The Federal Register has the details, which seems to also include US citizens that communicate with immigrants.

This is part of the general trend to srcrutinize people coming into the US more, but it's hard to get too worked up about the DHS accessing publicly available information. More disturbing is the trend of occasonally asking for social media passwords at the border.

from Schneier on Security http://ift.tt/2xN1N3R

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