America wants five years of your social media before you visit. I followed it to Five Eyes, a 1946 alliance kept secret for 64 years.

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.

  • Lantsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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…

    • Raffster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days 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?

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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      6 days 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.

    • Lantsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      6 days 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*
      • Lantsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Never left the EU, living in the Nordics. Here you could dance naked on the border road/bridge and no one would blink an eye. But that does sound like how it has looked like in the TV…