EFF, others expand protest U.S. plans to vet social media for visas

The article reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation and over 50 civil liberties groups have filed comments opposing a U.S. State Department proposal to require visa applicants to disclose social media identifiers, phone numbers, and email addresses used in the past five years; opponents argue the measure violates privacy and First Amendment rights, risks discrimination and false positives, and could enable bulk data-mining and intrusive government profiling.