Browser histories, telephone contacts and social media use may all be part of a new regimen of data collected by the Department of Homeland Security as it develops the protocols for “extreme vetting,” said the head of the Department of Homeland Security on Jan. 31.
Those details emerged as DHS stepped up to try to calm nerves about President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 Executive Order closing down for 90 days travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen and to make the case that the rollout of the policy was more orderly than it looked on television news.
