{"id":56803,"date":"2016-12-23T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/politico_u-s-_government_begins_asking_foreign_travelers_about_social_media\/"},"modified":"2016-12-23T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:50:19","slug":"politico_u-s-_government_begins_asking_foreign_travelers_about_social_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56803","title":{"rendered":"[Politico] U.S. government begins asking foreign travelers about social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select foreign visitors provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country, a move designed to spot potential terrorist threats that drew months of opposition from tech giants and privacy hawks alike.<\/p>\n<p>Since Tuesday, foreign travelers arriving in the United States on the visa waiver program have been presented with an \u201coptional\u201d\u009d request to \u201center information associated with your online presence,\u201d\u009d a government official confirmed Thursday. The prompt includes a drop-down menu that lists platforms including Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, as well as a space for users to input their account names on those sites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/12\/foreign-travelers-social-media-232930\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select foreign visitors provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country, a move designed to spot potential terrorist threats that drew months of opposition from tech giants<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56803\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}