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    cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 18 hours ago

    US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

    www.thejournal.ie

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    US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

    www.thejournal.ie

    cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 18 hours ago
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    US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications
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    The embassy also wants people to set their social media profiles to public.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/457134

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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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      Seriously, what’s the advantage of having social media? Just seems like a liability with every account.

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        If you don’t have social media you must be “hiding” something and will be denied entry.

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          will be denied entry

          Source:

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        Make a fake one that posts like… idk post random tech stuff that you could be reasonably interested in. Make nothing critical of authority. As a decoy profile.

        Then you can rant about big brother on an anonymous Lemmy Account over TOR.

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          Finally a killer app for AI. Create social media profiles and use AI agents to populate them with bland uncontroversial drivel.

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          But a super recent account would be suspicious

          You have to do this over a couple years

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