U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country
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#2Previous discussion few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15337961
Re: U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country
#3It's hard to see how this will do anything besides generate a ton of false positives.
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#4Not to suggest that this is okay to do to immigrants, (legal ones at that!) but the next step is clear. If this works well and remains unopposed, the average citizen will be targeted next.
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#5Did anyone imagine just how bad things would be on the citizen surveillance front 20 years ago? I'm curious.
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#6Guess I'm never moving to the US then.
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#7Something to realize here:
If you're between 10 and 60 years old, "I don't use social media" will likely not really be an answer at the border. Even a barely-used account will not really be an answer.
They're going to be able to say you're probably just hiding your real account. That could factor into denying you entry into a country.
If this becomes common with many countries, it could become de facto illegal to keep social media out of your daily habits.
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#8It's hard to see how this will do anything besides generate a ton of false positives.
Call me a cynic, but I doubt anyone really cares. What this really will be useful is as a database of people of selected race, origin and views to help appear for certain agencies to be working and generate headlines like: "50 suspected terrorists were deported", "terrorists bombing plot stopped" (of course, dummy bomb was provided by the same secret service) to justify even more mass surveillance in near future.
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#9As much as I’ve always loved to come to the US and as fascinating as some US conferences are (e.g. StrangeLoop might be my personal fav) – no international attendee or speaker can be expected to put up with this ever expanding amount of bullshit anymore.
If the science community or “our industry” really want to encourage and unlock the magic of diversity we need new venues for a whole lot of conferences either in Canada or the EU.
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#10Not to suggest that this is okay to do to immigrants, (legal ones at that!) but the next step is clear. If this works well and remains unopposed, the average citizen will be targeted next.
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