The US Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will now collect social media information from the accounts of immigrants in the country, according to The Fader.
The announcement specified twelve new kinds of information that will be collected and kept on immigration files, including social media handles, aliases and search results. This also applies to permanent residents and naturalized citizens.
Under these new rules, those who communicate online with such individuals may have their conversations monitored.
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Adam Schwartz, an attorney and freedom of speech advocate with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the policy “deters freedom of speech”. “There’s a growing trend at the Department of Homeland Security to be snooping on the social media of immigrants and foreigners and we think it’s an invasion of privacy”, he said.
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