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dembotoz

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22. lots of people who travel to foreign lands use burner phones

Reply to OnDoutside (Original post)

Sat Mar 31, 2018, 09:34 AM

Mar 2018

for this reason
this is not as rare as you think
best friend who uses her company phone left it at home when she traveled to russia...she had problems at a checkpoint because the authorities would not believe an american would travel with no phone.

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Anyone travelling to America will need to submit their social media accounts before entering [View all] OnDoutside Mar 2018 OP

Give it time. This IS huge but newly proposed, not enacted. Hortensis Mar 2018 #1

Yes, but I can see other nations, even allies, retaliating by requiring similar info from Americans. Rollo Mar 2018 #9

Yes, it's an invasion of privacy, and I don't like it either. Hortensis Mar 2018 #21

So if you actually don't USE social media and don't have accounts and tell them that... hlthe2b Mar 2018 #2

Good question. IluvPitties Mar 2018 #4

A lot of countries rolled over after 2001 in sharing data with the US, so it will be interesting to OnDoutside Mar 2018 #5

They run the phone numbers and emails against a database former9thward Mar 2018 #10

Then you can't possibly be a terrorist FakeNoose Mar 2018 #13

Unless some young whippersnapper agent refuses to believe that ANYONE does not have hlthe2b Mar 2018 #14

I'll bet this is Zuckerberg's idea FakeNoose Mar 2018 #16

"O'er the laaaa-hand OF THE FREEEEEEEEE--!" forgotmylogin Mar 2018 #3

US gestapo makes facebook look like amateurs nt msongs Mar 2018 #6

All visas? Tourist visas? Wow. mountain grammy Mar 2018 #7

Nativism at work. IluvPitties Mar 2018 #8

Lets see what the Universities and Tourism industry have to say. Tatiana Mar 2018 #11

Way to tank tourism $$$ sdfernando Mar 2018 #12

How are they going to validate email address and phones numbers?.. HipChick Mar 2018 #15

Its just to make sure they dont have any compromising pictures of Trump jberryhill Mar 2018 #17

This will do alot for the tourist industry. Crunchy Frog Mar 2018 #18

Your headline is inaccurate. Ms. Toad Mar 2018 #19

It is here in Jamaica malaise Mar 2018 #20

lots of people who travel to foreign lands use burner phones dembotoz Mar 2018 #22

Federal Register - 60 day notice, request for public comment sl8 Mar 2018 #23

This is actually probably long overdue Lee-Lee Mar 2018 #24