#social-media-surveillance

#social-media-surveillance

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As someone with a child in the US, this new Trump threat to scrutinise tourists' social media is concerning. Providing my user name would be OK the authorities would get sick of scrolling through chicken pics before they found anything critical of their Glorious Leader but what if I have to hand over my phone at the border, as has happened to some travellers already?

EU needs to find its backbone and tell the US president to take his National Security Strategy and shove it