想來(lái)美國(guó)旅游？先交出社交賬號(hào)

如果你想通過(guò)美國(guó)免簽證計(jì)劃赴美旅游，現(xiàn)在又要多一項(xiàng)程序了。據(jù)悉，美國(guó)海關(guān)和邊境保護(hù)局已經(jīng)開始要求入境游客提供自己的社交媒體賬號(hào)等信息了。政府希望此舉能幫助國(guó)土安全部分析調(diào)查，找出潛在的恐怖分子，但也同時(shí)表示，即使拒絕提供這些資料，外籍人士也不會(huì)被拒絕入境。

 

 

The US government has begun asking select foreign travelers to disclose their social media activities as part of an expanded effort to spot potential terrorist threats.

美政府加大排查潛在恐怖威脅力度，已要求部分外國(guó)游客公開他們的社交媒體活動(dòng)信息。

The request functions as a prompt on the online Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or Esta, a visa waiver application that many visitors are required to submit before travelling to the US.

這一要求能鼓勵(lì)游客使用在線旅行授權(quán)電子系統(tǒng)(Esta)，很多符合免簽證計(jì)劃的旅客在去美國(guó)旅游之前都要獲得該系統(tǒng)許可。

The choices include platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, and additional space for applicants to input their account names on those sites.

目前，可用的平臺(tái)包括臉書、推特、谷歌+、Instagram、領(lǐng)英和YouTube等。用戶在這些網(wǎng)站上輸入用戶名即可。

The Customs and Border Protection, which began the program last week, has previously said it wouldn't prohibit entry to foreigners who didn't provide their social media account information.

美國(guó)海關(guān)與邊境保護(hù)局于上周開始這項(xiàng)計(jì)劃，并已事先聲明，不會(huì)禁止未提供社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)賬號(hào)的外國(guó)游客入境。

The government has faced a barrage of criticism since it first floated the idea last summer.

自從美政府于去年夏天提出該項(xiàng)舉措，就不斷有批評(píng)者提出抗議。

Privacy rights activists say there are few guidelines about how the information, once obtained, is used or shared with other agencies.

隱私權(quán)活動(dòng)家稱，幾乎沒(méi)有準(zhǔn)則說(shuō)明美國(guó)政府獲得游客的社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)信息后將如何利用或與其他機(jī)構(gòu)分享。

The Internet Association, which represents companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter, has argued that policy threatens free expression.

包括臉書、谷歌和推特在內(nèi)的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)協(xié)會(huì)抗議稱，該政策將限制言論自由。

Michael W Macleod-Ball, chief of staff for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington office, told Politico last week:

上周，美國(guó)公民自由聯(lián)盟華盛頓辦事處主任邁克爾•W•麥克勞德-鮑爾告訴政客網(wǎng)：

"While the government certainly has a right to collect some information ... it would be nice if they would focus on the privacy concerns some advocacy groups have long expressed."

“雖然政府確實(shí)有權(quán)力收集一些信息……但政府更應(yīng)該關(guān)注某些團(tuán)體長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)提出的各種隱私問(wèn)題。”

A spokesperson for the internet privacy group Access Now told Politico the group feared that the choice to hand over social media information was not really a choice at all, and that the program could act as an opaque entry point for more exacting probes.

互聯(lián)網(wǎng)隱私團(tuán)體“正在訪問(wèn)”的發(fā)言人告訴政客網(wǎng)，他們擔(dān)心民眾實(shí)際上并沒(méi)有選擇是否向政府提供社交媒體信息的權(quán)利，而該計(jì)劃只是開始更加嚴(yán)格的監(jiān)控的幌子罷了。

"The process to enter the US is confusing, and it's likely that most visitors will fill out the card completely rather than risk additional questions from intimidating, uniformed officers the same officers who will decide which of your jokes are funny and which ones make you a security risk", explained Nathan White of Access Now.

“正在訪問(wèn)”的內(nèi)森•懷特解釋說(shuō)：“入境流程讓人倍感困惑，大多數(shù)游客更愿意把整個(gè)表完整填完，而非回答海關(guān)人員的附加問(wèn)題。這些身著制服的海關(guān)人員令人生畏，他們會(huì)決定你的玩笑是風(fēng)趣還是危險(xiǎn)。”

The US government approves around 10m visa applications a year and had 77.5 million foreign visitors in 2015. Collecting social media accounts for all visitors could produce one of the largest government-controlled databases of its kind almost overnight.

美國(guó)政府每年大約要通過(guò)1000萬(wàn)個(gè)簽證申請(qǐng)，2015年，共7750萬(wàn)外國(guó)游客赴美旅行。美國(guó)政府如果收集所有游客的社交媒體賬號(hào)，就能在一夜之間建立起由政府控制的數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)，其規(guī)模會(huì)是同類數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)中最大的之一。