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Because we are all required to use social media?
Not required to use, just access to all your social media. In addition, the rules want your phone history, including texts and 10 years of emails. Also remember, this (Lemmy) is considered social media. So, good luck if you have ever posted anything on a forum that a bunch of Nationalist Christians, or Nat-c's for short, don't like.
This is why you don’t use your real name online.
This is why governments are pushing age verification to track you while pretending it's to protect the children.
its to silence dissent against israel, and right wingers, and young people are the most avid at using social media to communicate thier displeasure of govts.
And a throw away email.
Yeah how are they supposed to know this is my account? How are you even supposed to provide them with all of this info? And how are they going to review all of this data if they can even obtain it in the first place?
AI.
And how exactly do they enforce this? I’m just curious, like you get off the plane, walk to customs and immigration, and they say you need to hand over your phone?
They are revamping ESTA. Currently, many countries citizens do not need a visa, but must get the electronic ESTA, to travel to the US. You can't just walk off a plane and gain entry, you must have prior approval. They are going to try to check everyone through some AI bullshit and make it hard or scary to even come to the states, denying you entry before you even get on the plane. This just fits right in with making America a bigger shithole and destroying it.
Yes, they already do that. That said, if you have good op-sec, you're not going to have your social media on your phone. At least, not your real social media, or if you do, you'll have it behind a password they can't break and that you're not going to give them, so this is not really about getting into everyone's social media per se, it's more about providing them more excuses to detain people they don't like, increasing surveillance of people who they know are probably not really doing anything wrong to begin with, and the chilling effect that surveillance provides in controlling those people who are not really doing anything wrong.
I’ve been through customs and immigration and I’ve never saw them ask for anyone’s phone before. That said, no one knows what they’ll do anymore, maybe just shoot us in the face 🤔
I know people who have had to give them the phone. It doesn't happen every time, it doesn't happen to everyone, it doesn't happen often, but it definitely does happen, and from what I understand, they can refuse you entry if you do not. I'm not in a position to say how common or widespread it is, but there are enough anecdotal stories to convince me it's probably decently widespread, albeit occasional and possibly targeted. Like you said though, no one knows what they'll do anymore, maybe just shoot you in the face. And that's kind of the point. They want that environment of uncertainty and not knowing when the bullet is going to come for you.
Why would anyone agree to providing them with ten years of emails. That's insane. It's private. Just absolutely no way ever.
No, but if you do, the (American) social media companies will tattle on you, guaranteed.
Yes. If you don't, they're gonna label it as suspicious
Iv unironically not been hired for jobs because of this. Because of how well I separate my online and offline life and my entirely non use of Facebook, Twitter, etc. iv had background companies report me as suspicious due to lack of information.
It's fucked up.
Sir, please refrain from any discussion, just hand us over your Facebook.