The US digital doxxing of H-1B applicants is a massive privacy misstep

An analysis of a U.S. State Department policy now requiring H‑1B/H‑4 visa applicants to make their social media profiles public, highlighting how mandated exposure creates significant cyber and physical risks for individuals and their employers (e.g., doxxing, spear‑phishing/BEC, SIM swapping, swatting, impersonation via deepfakes, recruitment and extortion), and how adversaries can mass‑scrape this data. The piece recommends pausing new posts and sanitizing past content before compliance, warning that the policy may increase national‑security risk while offering limited security benefit.