@briankrebs @User47 Is this "visitors" only or will I (an American citizen from birth) be subjected to the same illegal search when I return from travel abroad?

@briankrebs Donald's buddies in the hotel/resort/restaurant/travel/entertainment businesses must be so excited! /s/
I think they'd better hurry up with some ballroom money...

@briankrebs For me: no visites to the US anymore. First a new, blue administration, then a 5 years pause, then I might consider …. but no, I don’t think I’d like to take the risk. I’ll choose Canada.

@briankrebs I hope that the world uses this as a data poisoning opportunity.
If junky data is submitted, this would have the added benefit of making Palantir tools unusable.

@briankrebs this is bad. I assume all these data have been collected surreptitiously for years for interesting visitors.

@briankrebs so international FOSS orgs will finally stop organising their events in the US! Right? RIGHT!? 👀

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"Open air prison…"

Sounds like Trump is taking lessons from Israel to apply at home. Soon they will be sniping the journalists, the bloggers, so no pictures show the world the depths.

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"At first it was just going to be them."
SearingTruth

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"At first it was just going to be them."
SearingTruth

@briankrebs They’re trying to further isolate their own people from allies. Multi-pronged state terrorism.

@briankrebs My frustration is that every time I tell someone I know who is planning on going to the US on holiday that they should wait until this fascist regime is gone, they think I am crazy.

Look. I am a US citizen and I will not be going back there until the regime is over. There are much better places to visit anyway!

#BoycottWorldCup2026 #BoycottUSA #BoycottUSAProducts

@briankrebs Sorry for my ignorance, but is this for real? It reads like an Onion satire?

@briankrebs what the authoritarian hell?! Getting a visa to visit China is less intrusive.

@briankrebs Das sind alles Daten die die doch eh schon längst haben. Die wollen die wohl bloß nochmal abgleichen. Passt scho.

@briankrebs Just stay put. Don't head for America.

@briankrebs I'm sure Disney and Vegas CEO's will be utterly thrilled.

FWIW (Brit here) I decided not to travel to the US while the admin is in place immediately it won - The roadmap for Project 2025 was perfectly clear a year before that.

@briankrebs I don't at all understand that Federal Register link. Is it the wrong link? Or is it deliberately opaque?

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I'm glad I had the chance to visit the United States when it was still open to tourists. Too bad it's closed now.

@briankrebs There will be absolutely no f***ing way that I travel to the US under this kind of conditions... (already not long before but anyway).

@briankrebs But but but - it's only supposed to take 22 minutes for a family! /s

@briankrebs I mean, it's not like *this* is suddenly the reason for me not to want to visit.

Never been, never will. The act that these days they wouldn't let my trans ass in anyways is of no consequence.

I'll continue to enjoy beautiful Canada, not to mention all the places in Europe I've already visited and will again in the future. Would love to see more of the world too, the USA can eat a dick though.

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Will it be the same on the land border like Canada towards USA and USA towards Mexico? Some country requires data to quit the country.

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the "email addresses used in the last ten years" is ludicrous. I use catch-all email-addresses and hand out concocted addresses liberally. They expect me to remember every "[email protected]" address ever used?

And every family-member's phone-number used? I barely remember my wife's phone-number let alone relatives I sporadically call via the phone.

(I mean, the rest is pretty over-the-top too, so the whole "avoid the US" is good advice regardless, but some elements are nigh-impossible)

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Looks like #CBP / #ICE is out in Italy doing a little advance work:

"US to send ICE agents to Winter Olympics, prompting Italian anger"

Here: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y29xzjdzvo

@briankrebs Ha! LOLs. No freakin' way am I giving them that information.

I'll just travel to Canada instead. Much nicer country. Not fascist.

@[email protected]

> The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.

Probably a silly question (and perhaps I read the privacyinternational.org article too quickly), but how does one, as a random US citizen, provide comment?

I searched the PDF for "respon" to see if there was a URL or similar reference, but one didn't seem to be present?

I guess Amazon won't need to plan for nearly as many attendees at this year's re:Invent (one wonders the impact on other US-hosted conferences, festivals, etc.).

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it will be interesting to see how this affects the
#FIFAWorldCup

@briankrebs I see a large rise in fishing trips from canada and mexico in u.s. waters..

but how about. NO. simply

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Great timing

Roll on the World Cup & Olympic Games

…Should anyone turn up

@briankrebs If I was going to submit feedback it would be to enthusiastically recommend that they go ahead. The more people that are deterred from visiting the US, the better. It’ll be hard on a lot of industries and individuals, but it’ll hasten the collapse of the regime.

@briankrebs email, social media and phone numbers for the last 5 years conclusively shows they have all been intercepted, archived and indexed for at least that long. What do you think that huge NSA data center in Utah was for?

@briankrebs No way I could comply as I use wildcard email addressed (and have hundreds of domains) meaning I literally use a different email address on every form and web site and have no way to know them all. I have also had allocated to me well over a million phone numbers (as part of a junk call thing) - I could probably get a list of those and see if I can blow up the ESTA web site perhaps. And I have no right to give other people's numbers to the US either - does anyone, legally?

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How does one even "submit social media from the last 5 years"?

@briankrebs There is only one answer possible to this, but I'm too polite to voice it. Suffice it to say I won't be visiting USA.

@briankrebs fortunately i traveled the US prior to this disastergovernment and never need to go again.

@briankrebs Wrong tense. _Made up_ 3% of the nation's GDP.

@briankrebs the thing I am most worried about is that once this is implemented it will not be undone later. Rarely do security measures get reversed, authorities get too comfortable. This whole thing is sick

@briankrebs if anyone was willing to get shot for no reason by travelling to the USA, now there's even more reasons not to go. 🤔

@briankrebs Under the current administration, the US capacity, and downright craving, for self-harm seems infinite.

@briankrebs amazing. I travelled to russia and belarus a few times for work in the past, and that was less intrusive than this (admittedly, that was probably more because they didn't have the technology yet, nor a big palantir-powered data gathering/evaluation system to make use of the stuff)

@briankrebs This is evil. Just straight evil. I guess the 4th amendment is vapor.

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Bonjour, il me semble que ce genre de dérive autoritaire s'est déjà produite par le passé, notamment pour les touristes lambda ayant des opinions politiques communistes ou ayant des proches membres de ce parti, tant ces gens terrifiaient Mr. HOOVER. Ce n'est pas une raison pour accepter l'inacceptable bien sûr mais le peuple états-unien a déjà démontré sa capacité à lutter pour faire gagner la démocratie. Courage 👍

@briankrebs well, they do value freedom of speech so, so much!!!

@briankrebs it was easier to enter the German Democratic Republic (GDR) alias East Germany during the Cold War.

@briankrebs China, Russia, USA, in alphabetic order

@briankrebs forward to @ccc

@briankrebs Trump Regime wants to make travelling to the USA a thing of nasty bureaucracy. 5 years social media, family contacts etc.
Trump wants to kill tourism completely, it looks like building a wall around USA. Nobody can get in any longer without completely losing privacy.
An Iron wall around USA.

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> business telephone numbers used in the last five years

Lol, no call center worker is going to be visiting any time soon

@briankrebs these are Stasi methods and goes extremely deep into private area.