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.
https://public-nspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf (page 9 & 10)
Hummm
A. Ok, I guess I can see the point in that.
B. Getting creepy real fast!
C. What?
D. Creepy.
E. Insane.
F. Nope.
G. lol, I have no idea
H. Not relevant
I. I have already submitted my fingerprints to get my European biometric passport, fuck off.
J. Fuck if I know
K. What?
d, f, g, and maybe h, are actually already a part of the USCIS forms for immigrants (idk about tourists tho)
I know because my parents suck at English and I had to fill them out… it kinda feels normal to me…
They even asked for the death certificate of my maternal grandfather when my mother applied for her mother (aka: my maternal grandmother) to come to the us…
These days if you wanna go anywhere, you basically have to give up on your privacy…
Or I mean we could’ve stayed in China… you know… the totalitarian surveillance state with the firewall… so like it’s the same lack of privacy either way 🤷♂️
My parents don’t even give a crap about privacy… surveillance is so normalized to them…
I will say, the IP address thing is so silly, who the fuck actually jot down their IP address every time they use their computer… dynamic IP addresses lmfao