US 'Openess' Policy Now Requires Your TikTok History
The US Travel Association is concerned. Imagine that. They fear requiring tourists from 42 countries to hand over their digital lives might deter vacationers. As if privacy is some quaint, outdated concept for anyone not born here. This isn't a new idea for Uncle Sam; the country that holds Julian Assange for exposing state secrets has always been a fan of surveillance, just usually for other
people. One might wonder if this digital dragnet will actually catch 'terrorists' or merely reduce the tourism GDP. Perhaps it’s just another step in the slow creep of digital authoritarianism, dressed up as national security. After all, what’s a little 'chilling effect' when you can claim to be protecting freedom by demanding everyone’s follower count?