Foreign travelers will be asked to show their social media accounts when entering the US

RT – Foreign travelers to the US that are eligible for a visa waiver may be asked to provide their social media accounts, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which maintains that visitors won’t be profiled over any “social media identifiers.”  

The plan, first revealed in June and currently under cost evaluation by the Office of Management and Budget, would allow US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to ask certain foreign travelers to the US to provide their social media accounts on customs documents to help “enhance the existing investigative process and provide DHS greater clarity and visibility to possible nefarious activity and connections,” the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says.  CONTINUE READING