📚 US Border Agents Want Visitors' Facebook, Twitter Passwords
💡 Newskategorie: IT Security Nachrichten
🔗 Quelle: news.softpedia.com
Handing over your social media passwords may soon be something you’re asked to do by US border agents. If you’re already getting riled up, that’s completely understandable, and you’re not alone. “We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say? If they don’t want to cooperate then you don’t come in,” said John Kelly, Homeland Security Secretary in front of the House Homeland Security Committee, NBC News reports. Kelly’s speech before Congress addressed Trump’s immigration ban, which has already been nixed by a federal judge. He considers that password request was an idea that Homeland Security was currently taking into consideration as a method to tighten security at the borders. Another idea they were toying with was asking visitors for their financial records. A history of snooping This isn’... ...