We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running.
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@briankrebs
“Government agencies will likely need to get deep-level access to all social media platforms to gather social media intelligence. Of course they could scrape the content for each social media account for each visitor’s application. It’s more likely they’ll seek direct access to the platforms’ databases, or use third-party firms who can do this for them.”@earthlingusa @briankrebs Are you for real? Did you learn nothing from Ed Snowden? They are already in there...
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We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf
@briankrebs
this starts to be bad as something.i take my guesswork. when this or similar happens to domestic citizens. i put this as serious warning.
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We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf
@briankrebs Forced to use mobile phone app? Like... mobile phone is now a requirement to enter US? Mobile phone capable of running that app? Not good. Asking for personal data of other people? That should not be legal. Nor should be the other stuff :-(. -
What's scary is that the Dems have a very poor record when it comes to undoing some of the evil stuff by the Republicans (Patriot Act anyone?)
I reckon whatever happens with the next elections, this is here to stay
"There is no fate, but what we make."
Do-nothing members of Congress can still be booted from their sinecures.
Vote for the fighters, ditch the fascists & do-nothings.
The "both-sides" defeatist narratives are counterproductive.
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We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf
@briankrebs Glad I'm not going to the #fifa propaganda show.
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@briankrebs my social media from the past 10 minutes would get me banned.
@mlevison @briankrebs
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@briankrebs Data privacy aside, how would I know that this info wouldn't just find its way out onto the dark web for sale? I already gave up everything including my arsehole print to these fucks so that's one party who shouldn't have it already but that shouldn't mean I want it distributed more widely. Feels deeply unworkable for essentially having every bit of info that a fraudster could destroy my life with.
@nini @briankrebs A number of Elon Musk's DOGE staff is still active in many part of the US government. Based on some news reports, DOGE also installed a lof of backdoors in the government IT infrastructure. You should assume that all the personal data you surrender to the US government will end up in Musk's data centres.
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We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf
Reminder that US Citizenship, to get rid of, is a COST of $2,350
This citizenship is literally a debt hole. Its a "pay to exit", if you have a ticket to another country.
If not, you're trapped here.
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We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf
@briankrebs Yeah, like I was ever submitting this data to flicking nazis. In Finland we have a saying: ”You can keep your forklift!”
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@briankrebs Forced to use mobile phone app? Like... mobile phone is now a requirement to enter US? Mobile phone capable of running that app? Not good. Asking for personal data of other people? That should not be legal. Nor should be the other stuff :-(.
#RyanAir just announced me that I HAVE to install their app to have access to my boarding pass. No web version of the app available.
Digital Boarding Pass
Book direct at the official Ryanair.com website to guarantee that you get the best prices on Ryanair's cheap flights.
(www.ryanair.com)
Shame! Shame!
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@rbos I pre-generated a thousand email addresses, registered them with my email provider, and loaded them into my password manager. They're ready to go for new accounts with a simple rename.
The whole "tagging" thing with Gmail is one of those theoretical things I know about but have never done.
@ericphelps
That is a delightfully over-engineered solution and it definitely works well. Tagged addresses are going to be inferior but much simpler. Also spammers would be looking for tagged addresses.As to how, just add +string to the username of a Gmail address. It'll go to your main box. Easy to filter if needed.
Many email servers support that syntax. Others like qmail use -string.
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We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf
@briankrebs BTW, “yesterday” means Dec. 10, 2025. How come this took so long to surface?
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@bartt @faraiwe @briankrebs well they officially opened mine. Waiting for the blowback.
@farbel @bartt @briankrebs suspense is killing me
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@farbel @bartt @briankrebs suspense is killing me
@faraiwe @bartt @briankrebs I don't plan to go back to the US til June. A lot can happen before then.
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@briankrebs
For those saying, "Just don't travel to the US", there people like my relatives that must to travel to the US for work. They have no choice.
It's my hope that their head office helps them by not requiring them to travel there.@briankrebs
If their job is forcing them to travel to a fascist state then they need to find a new job. -
@briankrebs I wouldn't travel there if someone paid me for it. Even if my employer requested I travel to the US, I wouldn't do it. Nobody can make me provide that kind of private data to go on a business trip, nope.
@doncish yes, I already refused to go to Las Vegas. Not even if I get paid for it on a free trip. No, thanks.
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#RyanAir just announced me that I HAVE to install their app to have access to my boarding pass. No web version of the app available.
Digital Boarding Pass
Book direct at the official Ryanair.com website to guarantee that you get the best prices on Ryanair's cheap flights.
(www.ryanair.com)
Shame! Shame!
@mcepl @briankrebs That page has steps for "don't have a smartphone". But yes, still a shame and reason to avoid ryanair. -
@briankrebs @lazyb0y @Wyatt_H_Knott @wendinoakland @zm in the case of the USA, literally so
Donald Trump's DNA is 50% oompa lumpa.
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@arrakeen_urbanite @briankrebs not all, start by declaring ICE a terror organisation and refusing to allow anyone who works for it to travel, and then target members of the Administration specifically.
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as someone who has been using unique email addresses for every service, I look forward to submitting several hundred addresses.
@ojensen @briankrebs my website generates time-limited email addresses. The key for generating them is the time to millisecond accuracy i.e. I'm accumulating 1,000 new addresses every second. About 4 billion since I put this system in place.
