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Saturday, 27 August 2016 09:56
U.S. government plans to collect social media handles from visitors
Plan draws backfire from Silicon Valley technology groups
Earlier this week, a few US-based civil society groups joined Silicon Valley giants including Facebook, Twitter and Google to petition an optional Department of Homeland Security proposal to collect social media identifier information on the I-94W forms of visitors entering the country.