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How can they possibly require people who don't have social media profiles to hand such details over? Where's the proof that someone has or hasn't a social medi
by ravenstine 7y ago
How can they possibly require people who don't have social media profiles to hand such details over? Where's the proof that someone has or hasn't a social media profile? If they can verify that someone who claimed not to have a Facebook account indeed does, then why ask the question at all?
And if the US government is going to rely on Facebook and Google for identify vetting, then we've really entered an overtly "CorpGov" era, to steal a term from Yippies. Even if this is only a problem for visa applicants at the moment, who's to say what the next step will be?
- superkuh 7y agoCory Doctorow wrote a short story on this (google search information and online postings being searched at airport customs) back in the early 2000s called, "Scroogled": http://superkuh.com/scroogled.html http://superkuh.com/scroogled.html
- Gpetrium 7y agoFor now, it likely serves a few purposes: to cross-reference information in the database, as a legitimate reason to deny someone who may have lied to the officer, to uncover new information about the individual [1] & to decrease the need of a court order. The best course of action a civilian can do is to put pressure on their govs to create a system that protects their perceived interests. [1] Since the person can't tell what kind of information the immigration office has, they are more likely to over-present