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Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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This is probably illegal for Europeans. They would need to pay a fine on return from the USA.
What is illegal? Revealing your social media history?
Unless the intention is to dissuade compliance with authoritarian rules, it seems very weird and even then it stills looks cruel (to fine someone who might have not had any leverage at the time)
When I see the votes here, people don't seem to have read the article. You aren't just required to reveal social media history. They want information about other people, too. Your family, etc. And they probably haven't consented to giving their data to the US customs. This is against European privacy laws.
You can give your public (!) social media history to everyone you want to. It's your own data. But it stops at other people's data. You can't do that.
Giving them personal data of other people who haven't consented to it.