The Department of Homeland Security intends to monitor the social media accounts and internet search history of legal immigrants as part of a new tracking system set to roll out next month. Citizenship and Immigration Service online account number, social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information and search results. In June, the administration quietly put in place a new visa questionnaire requiring all social media handles used in the last five years. And sure enough, the agency says it’s already been culling social media handles. “DHS, in its law-enforcement and immigration-process capacity, has and continues to monitor publicly available social media to protect the homeland,” Joanne Talbot, a spokeswoman for the agency, told Bloomberg Wednesday.

Source: Huffington Post September 28, 2017 10:28 UTC