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US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com)
People who want to visit the United States could be asked to hand over their social-media passwords to officials as part of enhanced security checks, the country's top domestic security chief said. From a report on NBC: Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told Congress on Tuesday the measure was one of several being considered to vet refugees and visa applicants from seven Muslim-majority countries. "We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say?" he told the House Homeland Security Committee. "If they don't want to cooperate then you don't come in."
It's against the TOS for the user to let another access their account via the password. I didn't see anything in there about being on the receiving end. I would say it's implied, but it's not explicit. So security would be effectively forcing the user to violate the agreement with Facebook. Not sure how that plays out legally, but I'm assuming Facebook has every right to terminate their account for complying with the security check.
Here's the clause:
"You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
You will not transfer your account (including any Page or application you administer) to anyone without first getting our written permission."
At the border, any and all "searches and seizures" are considered "reasonable" for purposes of the Fourth Amendment. See Border search exception.
Ah! So you ADMIT they are all felons! Trump was right!
Because it's against the TOS, it's against the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
18 U.S. Code 103018 U.S. Code 1030(f): This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or of an intelligence agency of the United States.
Georgetown Law School says you don't know what you're talking about.
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The fact that the Framers chose to limit to citizens only the rights to vote and to run for federal office is one indication that they did not intend other constitutional rights to be so limited.
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Umm... You realize you are posting on a social media platform, using a social media account, right?
There's nothing social about Slashdot.
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So if you don't hand over your Facebook password, you might be organising a terrorist group from your Facebook page so you can't enter the |USA.
If you do hand over your Facebook password, you have committed a felony, so you can't enter the USA.
That strikes me as exactly the outcome that the Trump administration is looking for.
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