WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote to Rodney S. Scott, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), expressing concern about the agency's proposed rule that would require visitors eligible for visa-free travel to the U.S. to provide five years of social media history before entering the country and urging the CBP to reverse course on this dangerous proposal. The senators warned that such a policy would constitute a sweeping invasion of privacy and represent an unacceptable expansion of government data collection and monitoring. The Trump administra...