Customs: How your social media content could prevent you from going to the United States

Football fans will perhaps have to show a digital credentials before entering American territory, the scene of the next World Cup next June. The Trump administration intends to condition the granting of a visa waiver (Esta) on the provision of the history of all social media accounts for the last five years.

In a notice published in the Federal Official Journal, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Ministry of the Interior, asked in December to add these social networks as mandatory data to be submitted whereas it had until then been optional.

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