High Value Data Elements

To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4,
2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline
Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the
ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information
already collected in the ESTA application.

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.

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[–] 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If we did this to the Republican party I wonder how many rape cases would be solved.

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  • [–] 53 points 11 months ago

    It's the fascist populist playbook in action again

    1. Campaign under "bringing things back to the old ways"
    2. Implementation of exploitation
    3. Make it harder to leave
    4. Make it harder for others to enter
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  • [–] 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    I wonder how will they react if I say that I don't have any social media accounts.

    But I guess I'll keep wondering since my interest on going to that shithole has been plummetting for the last 20 years and right now is at below zero levels.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    There is zero chance I could accurately provide this information to anyone, none of my family members could, because they don't know the phone numbers I've had... All around it sounds like a shit idea.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    It's an attempt on intimidation, because supposedly for the person travelling it's a lose-lose:

    • provide all your data, and allow the US government (and any connected entities (big tech)) to use it to track and sell that data
    • don't provide all your data, and when the US government suspects that you did that, they can bar entry for little reason, and/or have legal grounds(/excuse) for go after you

    All around it's a humiliation and intimidation exercise

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  • [–] 40 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    A lot of that list is just info I don't have. I don't even know most of my family's current number, you expect the past?

    The IP one is hilarious. I've likely had hundreds of IPs in the last 5 years, and I don't know any of them. Would you just send a range of potential options or do they expect me to know and write out hundreds of IP addresses? The total range of every carrier I've used in the last 5 years?

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I've had the same IP address forever: 127.0.0.1.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago

    ESTA?

    Everyone Stay Thefuck Away?

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  • [–] 110 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    At this point why would anyone from civilized world even want to visit the ex-colonies?

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago*

    Hey, what did Canada do? Or eTA isn't even as invasive as the EU's proposed ETIAS, and certainly nothing approaching the anal-probe-level personal violations of the ESTA. And we need tourism. The US is fucking our economy in a massive way.

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  • [+] -48 points 11 months ago (4 children)
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  • [+] -14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Lol?

    Calling Europe the "civilzed world" and referring to other places as "ex-colonies" has deeply racist undertones. I am sorry that calling this out can only be seen as "ruzzian bots" by the folks in this community, especially when I have no sympathy for russia 😅.

    I guess this place ia truly becoming like reddit now. Where people downvote shit without understanding it.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago

    It's ok, I'll just do vacation somewhere else.

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  • [–] [S] 74 points 11 months ago (22 children)

    Every other country should apply the same list on US citizens.

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Or just ban US citizens. Fuck them.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

    Don't be like your enemy, be better;

    USA citizens did nothing wrong (beside voting trump but it's not all of them ofc)

    Edit: i don't understand why y'all want to punish every citizen of USA, even those that did not voted trump or those that are actively agains him and do protests

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    It's like saying Russian people did nothing wrong besides voting for Putin, but it's not all of them ofc.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I am saying that not all USA citizens voted trump so they shouldn't be punished for that, it's like if i suddently decide to ban all german people from my country because of hitler, it just make no sense at all

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    But not ALL the people, many didn't voted trump and many are doing protests/manifestations, not ALL people are fault.
    Doing that shit of punishing everyone who is citizen in USA is so fucking stupid and childish

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    The USA is functionally an oligarchy, not a democracy. The groups with the most money hold untoward amounts of explicit and implicit power. Moneyed business interests own and control entire political parties, media outlets, financial institutions, etc.

    It is truly terrifying to comprehend the breadth and depth of the dystopia that has roots in corporate greed. Modern pervasive surveillance technology implemented by the commercial sector worldwide makes real-time identification of dissent trivially easy. Laws may exist on paper to protect and empower citizens, but if corruption overrides accountability to those laws then functionally the government is authoritarian.

    The average citizen in any oligarchy has very little influence or power over their government.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago

    Translation: Musk said "Here, sign this and then we go to McDonald's!" and Trump was like "ALL RIGHT!"

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Email adresses is gonna be fun with my catch all.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    Well we can't say it's just Trump only hates darkies. I am of the opinion Trump wants to destroy the world as revenge for his dying.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    None of this will ever be used maliciously in any way shape or form, and it will all be stored in a secure, air gapped server

    /s

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Aren’t all EU countries on the list of visa free - waived ESTA requirements countries ? Thought that was the case? Or has that been reversed?

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    mfw I don't know most of the required information.

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  • [+] -7 points 11 months ago

    Misleading title. Post makes it sound like all data is requires. Low effort.

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