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US is moving towards asking tourists for five-year social media history and biometrics before entry (www.bbc.com)
submitted 6 months ago* by [M] to c/politics@sh.itjust.works
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Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information already collected in the ESTA application. The high value data fields include:

  • a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;
  • b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;
  • c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;
  • d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);
  • e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;
  • f. Family member dates of birth;
  • g. Family member places of birth;
  • h. Family member residencies;
  • i. Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;
  • j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;
  • k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.

https://public-nspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf (page 9 & 10)

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[–] 41 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

Looking to the US tourism industries to further collapse.

This is so intrusive that most of the "I have nothing to fear if I have nothing to hide" crowd will get creeped out by this.

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    • [–] 14 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Olympics and world cup in the US gonna be a pitiful joke

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    • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    ROFL Excuse me?! They are taking the absolute piss with all those requirements, as an American, I hope tourism plummets to the point they need to backpedal aggressively. This lets you know that the US leaders are fucking scared and nervous about their temporary control...Like they should be because fascism is never going to be fetch, no matter how much they want it to be.

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    • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Hummm

    A. Ok, I guess I can see the point in that.
    B. Getting creepy real fast!
    C. What?
    D. Creepy.
    E. Insane.
    F. Nope.
    G. lol, I have no idea
    H. Not relevant
    I. I have already submitted my fingerprints to get my European biometric passport, fuck off.
    J. Fuck if I know
    K. What?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    d, f, g, and maybe h, are actually already a part of the USCIS forms for immigrants (idk about tourists tho)

    I know because my parents suck at English and I had to fill them out... it kinda feels normal to me...

    They even asked for the death certificate of my maternal grandfather when my mother applied for her mother (aka: my maternal grandmother) to come to the us...

    These days if you wanna go anywhere, you basically have to give up on your privacy...

    Or I mean we could've stayed in China... you know... the totalitarian surveillance state with the firewall... so like it's the same lack of privacy either way 🤷‍♂️

    My parents don't even give a crap about privacy... surveillance is so normalized to them...

    I will say, the IP address thing is so silly, who the fuck actually jot down their IP address every time they use their computer... dynamic IP addresses lmfao

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    • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Thanks for me know how you’re categorizing mass surveillance metadata America.

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    DNA and iris data? Are you kidding me? Nobody gets those biometrics.

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    [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Even if I knew most of those, I wouldn't share it. Fuck off.

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    • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Why would anyone be stupid enough to visit the us?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    sports ball

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Boo! Sports ball bad!

    With that out of the way, that is a reason I would never have considered because sports are just something that has no part in my life. Even if they did I can't imagine they would be a good enough reason for me to visit a fascist shithole but hey different strokes I suppose.

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    • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Americans like me abroad: We’re not going back!

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