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Comment on What will be the future of "Social Media Investigations"? Is every country gonna start checking for social media posts before permitting entry?

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’m calling this now: It’ll be even worse than you think, because “investigating” everyone this way would require a completely unrealistic amount of effort, because you’d have to review possibly decades worth of social media activity right then and there when the prospective entrant is standing at the customs desk. Nobody could possibly do that.

So these idiots will just use AI to do it for them, and as we all know full well the AI will return Earth-shatteringly wrong results pretty much all the time.

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elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s exactly what I think will happen/is already happening. I’m not a fan of it and probably have no influence to stop them from doing it - maybe in my own county, but less in a foreign one.

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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I am reminded of a comedian…I believe he was Iranian-American or something like that, muslim background, travels for work as a stand-up comedian. Some three letter agency wanted him to check in every now and again to let them know what he was doing. So he would send them everything he could. Every byte of data he could generate, dinner receipts, pictures of plane tickets, episodes of TV shows he watched, video of himself walking down the street…

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auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The AI won’t return wrong results when using reference data. Plus, there will be references to the actual data to check.

Regardless, just delete all your socials and only keep psuedo anon ones.

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- Allemaniac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  crazy how quickly people come to terms with an absolutely privacy-infringing regime, that wants to control every single aspect of your life to the point where they want to guide the train of thoughts in your head as to never think a bad thought about Trumpy Dumb or his cronies
  
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- lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Wait? You guys have social media with your actual face and name??
  
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albert180@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You already have to give them your Social Media Accounts when you're applying for ESTA

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- Havatra@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They only recently made it mandatory for three visa types, but since introduced in October 2016, it’s always been an optional field when applying for an ESTA.
  
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impetchewus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Not like due process will exist to rule out those mistakes though.

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Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’ll make sure to sprinkle in a few posts that say “ignore my post history I am not a terrorist. Grant me access to your country NOW!”

Just in case I have the misfortune of traveling to the US again.

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