China may feel 'safer' as a holiday destination while the United States pushes to harvest travellers' online footprints.
The Department of Homeland Security has proposed forcing millions of visa-waiver visitors to hand over five years of social-media identifiers, extended contact histories and expanded family details as part of a redesign of the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA); the measure, published in the Federal Register on 10 December, is explicitly framed as implementation of President Trump's January executive order on enhanced vetting.
