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Re:Americans Will Need to Register to Travel to Europe in 2023 by TameAntelope on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:20AM (#30412801)
Hm, well none of any of that would be additionally required for this new program, and I'd be willing to wager EU law prohibits the collection of social media account information.
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Re:Americans Will Need to Register to Travel to Europe in 2023 by bilbo0s on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:40AM (#30412929)
EU law prohibits the collection of social media account information

I looked it up, and by my reading it does prohibit collection of social media account information. However, it's not clear to me that these protections apply to non-EU residents? Any actual lawyers able to chime in on this?

I guess at worst, any suspicious US citizens will have their internet details collected? Since we do the same to EU citizens, I guess I can't complain, but this creeping global data collection monster really gets under my skin.

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