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Travelers Beware: Homeland Security is Googling You
Submitted by Julie on October 26, 2007 - 1:48pm
Cleveland Leader

We've all undoubtedly heard the warnings about being careful about
the information we put online, as well as the stories of potential
employers and college admissions and coaches checking up on people
online through Google and social networking sites like MySpace and
Facebook. But here's a new one for you: the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security is also using this information to check up on
individuals entering the country. "They" are watching you, and "they"
know what you've been up to.

Andrew Feldman, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who's currently a
psychotherapist in Vancouver, was recently detained for four hours,
fingerprinted, and then barred entry into the United States after
Homeland Security googled him and found an article he wrote in a
literary and scientific journal in which he talked about using LSD and
various other drugs in the 1960's. And even though he has no criminal
record and says he hasn't used drugs since the 1970's, Feldmar must
now get formal permission from the U.S. consul before entering the
U.S.

Feldmar has been accustomed to visiting the U.S. about five or six
times per year to visit his children, but last summer when he was
pulled over for a random search, border patrol turned up online
evidence that he had experimented with drugs for therapeutic research
in the past.

Now nearly a year later, Feldmar has come to the conclusion that his
banishment from the United States is permanent. He claims that the
waiver process is exhausting, costly, and demeaning. His family and
friends are devastated.

Feldmar's daughter, Soma, said: "My father was doing nothing wrong,
illegal, suspicious, or at all deviant in any way, when he was trying
to visit the U.S. In terms of family it really sucks. "

What's this mean for other people who've done questionable things in
the past? Will an entire generation of hippies be barred from the U.S.
for recreational drug use in 60's? Will journalists who've written
less than flattering articles concerning the U.S. be stopped too? It's
not clear where the line with be drawn, so take this advice: be
careful what you share online.





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