Another Step Deeper into Fascism/Nazism

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will begin collecting social media information and search results to include in immigration records starting on October 18, according to a rule published in the Federal Register last week. The policy will affect individuals going through the immigration process as well as naturalized citizens.

The goal of the policy, which seeks to update the Privacy Act of 1974, is to “streamline immigration recordkeeping” so that the DHS agency can consolidate official records into one immigration record. The policy will allow the agency to pull new sources of information into that record including “social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results.” The new policy will not just affect recent immigrants to the United States — but permanent residents and naturalized citizens as well.

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“We see this as part of a larger process of high tech surveillance of immigrants and more and more people being subjected to social media screening,” Adam Schwartz, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which advocates for privacy and free expression, told BuzzFeed News.

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Schwartz also said that the rule would affect U.S. citizens who communicate with these immigrants.

  Think Progress

Next we will round them up into "camps". And don't be caught trying to communicate with any immigrants. You'll get on the list.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.