Posted on 01/04/2019 9:19:12 AM PST by rktman
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has adopted a new rule that allows the agency to collect social-media data from those who cross the border.
The agency claims the exemption from Privacy Act provisions is necessary because it needs “to identity and understand relationships between individuals, entities, threats and events, and to monitor patterns of activity over extended periods of time that may be indicative of criminal, terrorist, or other threat.”
A number of privacy groups and interests had opposed the expansion of the exemptions to the privacy law, but the agency in a filing in the Federal Register explained that it needed to move forward.
It amended its regulations “to exempt portions of a newly established system of records … from certain provisions of the Privacy Act. Specifically, the department exempts portions of ‘DHS/CBP-024 CBP Intelligence Records System” from one or more protections of the act.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Just leave your smart phone at home when you travel and get a cheap burner phone.
If the Border Patrol wants a copy of the burner let them have it.
While not for that reason, our company advises when traveling for business. Leave your personal phone at home, and for cost/expense reasons, obtain a loaner phone from the overseas office.
I don’t get this issue. Social media is just that “social”. I never post anything here, on FB, my blog or anywhere that I would object to anyone seeing. If someone wants to invest in disk space to save my ruminations, I say, go for it. . .maybe they will learn something ;)
If they saw what I post here, I’d probably be offered a job by them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.