odd-kahlie:

invizible:

invizible:

Sooooo the US is gonna start collecting all social media info of immigrants 🙃

Welp it was nice knowing y’all, looks like I’ll be going back to zim

It’s going into effect October 18

Here’s a link to the official federal register documents. Here’s a link to VICE  with more information. 

Also, feel free to leave a comment to about this regulation while it is still open (until October 18, 2017) here.

Some highlights:

• This is meant to help the US identify possible terrorist threats.
• Tests for this program have thus far shown to be unsuccessful
• When reviewing social media content of refugees, who have been flagged  as a risk due to previous screening methods, found no indication of threats on social media.
• The compiling of information will be done on immigrants, including Green Card Holders and Naturalized Citizens.
• The information is meant to be taken from publicly available from the internet, public records, institutions, interviewees, commercial data providers, etc. 
• This could require immigrants to hand over every social media handle and email address they have used in the past five years.
• Information may also be obtained on those who communicate with a US immigrant.

If you have time, I would suggest leaving a comment about this regulation. Though it will not stop this change in regulation, it will give strong precedent for changing this in the future.