{"id":341123,"date":"2025-12-10T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341123\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:11:11","slug":"us-plans-to-order-foreign-tourists-to-disclose-social-media-histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341123\/","title":{"rendered":"US plans to order foreign tourists to disclose social media histories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to order visa-exempt foreign tourists to disclose their social media histories from the last five years before entering the country, according to an official notice.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The proposal laid out in a notice published on Tuesday in the Federal Register would apply to visitors from 42 countries, including Britain, France, Australia and Japan, who do not need a visa to enter the United States.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Currently, those travellers only need to apply for a waiver known as the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), which still requires them to provide certain personal details.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under the proposed new rules, the collection of social media data would become a \u201cmandatory\u201d part of ESTA applications.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Applicants would need to provide their social media histories from the last five years, according to the notice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Applicants would need to provide their social media histories from the last five years, according to the notice. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6d133af9-d73d-48ac-beb2-a7506a158171_b97478a4.jpg\" title=\"Applicants would need to provide their social media histories from the last five years, according to the notice. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>Applicants would need to provide their social media histories from the last five years, according to the notice. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They would also have to submit other \u201chigh-value data fields\u201d including phone numbers from the last five years, email addresses from the past decade, personal details of family members and biometric information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to order visa-exempt foreign tourists to disclose their social media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[67437,23,1246,7676,103,171238,104077,15303,594,104611,171237,3471,26,3,4121,9805,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-341123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-afp","tag-america","tag-australia","tag-britain","tag-canada","tag-electronic-system-for-travel-authorization-esta","tag-federal-register","tag-first-amendment","tag-france","tag-h-1b-visas","tag-international-fact-checking-network","tag-japan","tag-mexico","tag-news","tag-state-department","tag-the-trump-administration","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}