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Digital Borderline
The Statesman Siliguri
|December 17, 2025
The United States is preparing to widen its security net once again, this time by asking millions of prospective visitors to surrender five years of their social-media history as part of the routine travel authorisation process.
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It is framed as a modest adjustment to an existing system designed to keep the country safe. Yet the scale and intrusiveness of the proposed requirement point to something far more consequential: the quiet normalisation of digital exposure as the price of entry.
The Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) was created to make transatlantic and trans-Pacific travel easier for citizens of friendly nations. For years, it was held up as a model of how security screening could be made both rigorous and frictionless.
This story is from the December 17, 2025 edition of The Statesman Siliguri.
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