Depressingly, it seems this idea was originally proposed around June 2016, with the scheme only just being made mandatory instead of optional: https://www.theg

Depressingly, it seems this idea was originally proposed around June 2016, with the scheme only just being made mandatory instead of optional: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/us-customs-border-protection-social-media-accounts-facebook-twitter https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/us-custom... So it's not purely tied to the recent political changes. The US Department of Homeland Security has wanted this for a while. Either way, it's terrible. It goes against the terms of service for almost all online service providers, it opens up another avenue for customs to frame you by using your account to post messages/view controversial content, it's a massive privacy risk and it mostly punishes people who are both small time enough and honest enough to only have one account per service to hand over.