> The US wants to check whether people who show up for vacation without a visa have a criminal record ... it's not at all an unreasonable thing for the US to wa

> The US wants to check whether people who show up for vacation without a visa have a criminal record ... it's not at all an unreasonable thing for the US to want access to It might not be an unreasonable request for a gov with a long history of abiding to agreements - and w/o a long history of misusing data for the benefit of Gov & gov partners. Which means it is a fully unreasonable request by the US Gov (of any administration). But a request by a US Gov that gifts its citizens' most sensitive data to one of the world's least ethical data brokers so that vulnerable people can be mistreated in bulk? Burn the paper the request is written on. Threaten to kill the next messenger they send. And brick up the door they knocked on.