Forcing visitors to share five years of social media history is nuts

Your papers, please – and tweets, too. This could soon be a new requirement if you want to visit the United States.

Customs and Border Protection filed notice this week that it plans to require tourists from the 42 countries who otherwise can enter without a visa to start sharing their social media activity from the last five years, as well as any email addresses that have been active for the past 10 years. That’s in addition to the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children.