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Has America Become the Scariest Country in the World to Visit? (thearchitectautopsy.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by TheArchitectAutopsy@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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When I read that the US had proposed making ESTA visitors hand over five years of their social media, I asked myself, would I even want to go there now? Then I went looking at where all that information ends up. Part 1 of my Five Eyes series.

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[–] manuremy@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

No, absolutely not the scariest and likely never will be.. But I gotta wonder, what if someone really doesn't use any social media and then when visiting they get stopped and they got nothing to show? I feel like they're gonna get accused of "hiding" and denied entry..

[–] manuremy@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Now that I thought about this a bit more, freshly made empty social media profiles would be even more suspicious.. Huh. Would the person need to make full-on fake profiles long before the actual trip? I know I plan my travels early, but never ever have had to add a date in calendar for making the decoy social media profiles.

// "Oh, you say you're not on Facebook? Let's check the anal cavity of this fucking terrorist! *rubber glove snaps*
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think the only logical procedure is, they suspect that person of hiding that kind of information, and they start digging for evidence against them.

[–] Raffster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

And yet here we are. I never had a social media account, been here longer than the internet and always thought Facebook stupid af. Now what?