EFF to D.C. Circuit: The U.S. Government's Forced Disclosure of Visa Applicants' Social Media Identifiers Harms Free Speech and Privacy
Briefly

Our amicus brief lays out the privacy interests that visa applicants have in their public-facing social media profiles, the Disclosure Requirement's chilling effect on the speech of both applicants and their social media connections, and the features of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and X that reinforce these privacy interests and chilling effects.
Social media paints an alarmingly detailed picture of users' personal lives, covering far more information that that can be gleaned from a visa application.
Read at Electronic Frontier Foundation
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