Stallman Was Right

What the fuck. There were only few reasons why I wanted to maybe someday visit the US (Burning Man and Defcon), but fuck that. I'm glad I don't have to travel there for work, and if I had to, I'd rather find a new job.

I hope employers in the EU will be reasonable and not send their people to this hell-hole, and that a lot of events will consider moving to Europe, especially things like Defcon. I can't imagine how would any abroad attendee of Defcon be willing to go through this.

Each visitor would also be required to submit what CBP calls “High Value Data Elements”. According to the notice:

The high value data fields include:

a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;

b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;

c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;

d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);

e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;

f. Family member dates of birth;

g. Family member places of birth;

h. Family member residencies;

i. Biometrics—face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;

j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;

k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.