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I assume you're referring to this form: https://www.axistravel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ONLINE-ESTA-USA-Visa-Form-Complete-and-return-to-Axis-Travel.pd

I assume you're referring to this form: https://www.axistravel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ONLINE-ESTA-USA-Visa-Form-Complete-and-return-to-Axis-Travel.pdf https://www.axistravel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ONL... Regarding email address, it's under "contact information" same as "home address". What's the problem? Regarding social media, it says "optional", so...?

bitcharmer 7y ago
Not sure under which rock you were hiding all this time, so here you are: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48118558 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48118558 https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/01/u-s-customs-can-seize-your-phone-when-you-return-home-abroad/3632116002/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/01/u-s-customs-ca... https://www.zdnet.com/article/warrantless-phone-laptop-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-record-levels/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/warrantless-phone-laptop-searc...
- tantalor 7y ago
  I was referring to "give away a list of all their social media accounts and all their email accounts", not "If you ... you must now share that information". Your references make no mention of the former.
  - belltaco 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142
- dang 7y ago
  Please edit personal swipes out of your comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
guan 7y ago
This is the form for ESTA, the travel authorization one must obtain if entering the US under the visa waiver program by air or sea. On the visa application forms, the social media questions are not optional, though still limited to a particular list of social media sites. The visa form is used people from countries who are not in the visa waiver program as well as who are not entering under the VWP (for example workers, students, journalists, tourists/business travelers staying longer than 90 days, and immigrants).

bitcharmer 7y ago

Not sure under which rock you were hiding all this time, so here you are: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48118558 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48118558 https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/01/u-s-customs-can-seize-your-phone-when-you-return-home-abroad/3632116002/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/01/u-s-customs-ca... https://www.zdnet.com/article/warrantless-phone-laptop-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-record-levels/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/warrantless-phone-laptop-searc...

tantalor 7y ago
I was referring to "give away a list of all their social media accounts and all their email accounts", not "If you ... you must now share that information". Your references make no mention of the former.
- belltaco 7y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142
dang 7y ago
Please edit personal swipes out of your comments here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

guan 7y ago

This is the form for ESTA, the travel authorization one must obtain if entering the US under the visa waiver program by air or sea. On the visa application forms, the social media questions are not optional, though still limited to a particular list of social media sites. The visa form is used people from countries who are not in the visa waiver program as well as who are not entering under the VWP (for example workers, students, journalists, tourists/business travelers staying longer than 90 days, and immigrants).