US EditionThursday's papers: Kela's biggest recipients, US social media plan would impact Finnish tourists, and lunch prices to rise
- On Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposed requiring social-media data from travellers applying via the Electronic System for Travel Authorization under the Visa Waiver Program.
- CBP said the change follows an executive order President Donald Trump signed, and the broader policy traces to the first Trump administration and remains under President Joe Biden.
- Proposed fields include metadata from electronically submitted photographs, extensive family-details fields, telephone and email histories, biometric information, and `high-value data fields` as described by CBP.
- A public comment period opens before finalisation, and if approved, visa-waiver visitors would need to provide substantially more personal information in their ESTA submissions.
- Amid questions about transparency, the announcement did not specify what CBP seeks in travellers’ social accounts, while the social-media question on ESTA had been optional and non-VWP travellers already faced requirements.
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‘Authoritarian’ US visa plan to vet social media threatens Irish business and World Cup fans
“Authoritarian” moves by Donald Trump’s administration to ask travellers, including from Ireland, to hand over five years of social media history have been branded “a massive overreach” that would damage relations with the US.
US Plans to Ask Tourists for 5 Years of Social Media History
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is proposing a new rule that would require some tourists to provide access to the last five years of their social media before entering the country. According to the text of the new rule, published in the Federal Register on Dec. 10, the social media check will comply with President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order “Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Securit…
The Trump Administration is assessing to continue to increase the supervision of foreigners entering the United States, even if they come from Western countries, or have not yet had higher entry requirements. Specifically, they are evaluating an initiative that includes obtaining information from social networks from those interested in arriving in the country. Read more]]>
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